file numbering systems - what to do when you reach 10,000 pics?

[ReF]

what do you do when you reach 10,000 shots on a 4 digit file numbering system? how do you keep your files from getting all jumbled up? the first time i got away with this because i bought a new camera right when i was in the 9600+ pics range, so i started a seperate organized folder for the new cam. now i'm at 7300 and i'm not sure what to do. i'm trying not to start a seperate organized folder as this might cause confusion as well. anyone know of techniques or programs with 5 a digit numbering systems?

[Rhys]

what do you do when you reach 10,000 shots on a 4 digit file numbering system? how do you keep your files from getting all jumbled up? the first time i got away with this because i bought a new camera right when i was in the 9600+ pics range, so i started a seperate organized folder for the new cam. now i'm at 7300 and i'm not sure what to do. i'm trying not to start a seperate organized folder as this might cause confusion as well. anyone know of techniques or programs with 5 a digit numbering systems?

I tend to organise my files like this:

CD x (700 mb folder)

2005-03-29 (date photos in folder were taken)
and I continue like that. As for indexing, I haven't yet found a need for it.

[Norm in Fujino]

what do you do when you reach 10,000 shots on a 4 digit file numbering system?

I try not to let it get that out of hand. I run my photos through PIE (picture information extractor); it has a renaming function that I set for the date the photo was taken (for example)

050503001.jpg

(May 3, 2005, no. 001)

It increments the rest of the photos based on this pattern. If I decide to take more than 1000 photos in a day, I just add an extra "0" to the final digits.

[Norm in Fujino]

what do you do when you reach 10,000 shots on a 4 digit file numbering system?

I try not to let it get that out of hand. I run my photos through PIE (picture information extractor); it has a renaming function that I set for the date the photo was taken (for example)

050503001.jpg

(May 3, 2005, no. 001)

It increments the rest of the photos based on this pattern. If I decide to take more than 1000 photos in a day, I just add an extra "0" to the final digits (ha! that'll be the day!).

[ReF]

thanks for the suggestions guys. i organize my photos by shooting locations and subjects, so i have one for all the photos i shoot at the local beaches for example. i also have sub folders inside the main folders so that when i look in one of the more crowded folders, i'm not trying to open thousands RAW files/thumbnails at the same time. I shoot very very often so this seems to be the only way i can go back and easily find something i shot way back. Norm, where could i find the PIE program you mentioned?

[soothsayer]

9998 pics in the cam, 9998 pics in the cam, take one pic save it to cam, 9999 pics in the cam.... 9999 pics in the cam, 9999 pics in the cam, take one pic save it to cam, then rename your computer folders, reorganize your files, download your pics, 0001 pics in the cam.

[Norm in Fujino]

Norm, where could i find the PIE program you mentioned?

http://www.picmeta.com/whatis.htm

[soothsayer]

for those who have a canon, and use the usb cable to download photos, you can use the "camera window" software and it can rename the photos automatically (you must click on the manually select and transfer option, not the button on the camera that automatically transfers all photos.)

[StanStan]

for those who have a canon, and use the usb cable to download photos, you can use the "camera window" software and it can rename the photos automatically (you must click on the manually select and transfer option, not the button on the camera that automatically transfers all photos.)

I use 'Better File Rename'. I'm in the 9000 range now and never thought of that problem. I would do a search and get all your files in one spot. I would then insert a 0, zero, as the second character in the file name of all files at once.
Then P123456 would become P0123456 and P0123457.....>>>>>>The next 10,000 would be 2. Could keep this up your whole life. I Have DSCNxxxxx and Pxxxxxx's
You would then keep all your file name intact no matter what they were.

[kgosden]

Hmm, you don't say what camera you are using; is this a camera side issue? My Olympus cameras use a date+number sequence naming convntion so I would have to exceed 9999 pictures on a single day to repeat numbers in the camera. My Minolta places each day's photos in a unique directory, but the numbering always starts at 1. This gets annoying when I merge multiple day events into a single PC side folder.

Neither is generally a problem since I store photos in event based folders on my PC. I have yet to exceed 2000 photos on a single trip.