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bestcee

bestcee

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So, I learned something this year.
Previous years, I always reset my camera numbering system on January 1st. Usually a few minutes after we ring in the New Year, when it's calm, and I won't miss something.

2017? I didn't. And I regretted it every single day! Because I love knowing that photo 0001 is going to be January. And photo 4000 is probably in the May-June area. And, since Windows naturally sorts by number, it's nice not to have to change the sort.

How about you? Do you ever reset your numbering system?
 
I wouldn't even know how to do that Courtney! Neat though!
 
No. I am not that organized where my photos are concerned. They go into a weekly folder and that's it. My phone has another system than my camera and I also started recently to save screenshots and images from the web I want to use in that folder, so I won't forget them. So the file names and numbers are all over the place. As anal as I am with supplies as "let it be" I am with my photos.
 
Can you reset the camera to any number you want, or must it be 0001? I wish I could reset my DSLR to start with the number 2018 on Jan 01. That way, I could have pics starting with the year they were taken. I had an EHD freak out on me: it lost all my folders and just dumped all pics into one folder. Sorting was a mess (at the time I only had one EHD so I couldn't just use another EHD).
Anyway, it would have been easier if I at least knew what year they were taken, and it's one reason I love how it android phone uses the date and time for its photos!
 
OMG I loooove this idea! I'm gonna do it.

I just checked my camera (Sony DSC-WX500) and it's very easy to set back the numbering to 0.
[menu] > [settings] > [file numbering] > [set back] (translated from Dutch, so it might be slightly differently worded)
The two options are set back to 0 or continue. So no such luck @Tree City
 
I don't do this, because I use Lightroom for organization & editing! I upload everything into Lightroom by date from the photos metadata...so everything is always in order! :)
 
I didn't even know you can do this!

couple questions:
is this your camera or your phone?
if phone, how do you do it?
if camera? do you use the same memory card? I've run into issues before when my large memory card has multiple photos and I try to copy them to a folder at the same time they say they're duplicates. Do you ever run into a situation where you are trying to place two #1's (Jan 1, 2017 and Jan 1, 2018) into the same place?
 
Rikki said:
As anal as I am with supplies as "let it be" I am with my photos.
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I'm totally the opposite! I've come to realize I am a let it be person with supplies. I tried so hard in 2017 to organize them, and I never did because I don't really care when it comes down to it. But photos? Organized! Tagged, and easy to find.
I keep my screenshots/texts/memes in a folder that syncs from Dropbox. It's a baby folder to the year. I love being able to use them too!

lealawson said:
I upload everything into Lightroom by date from the photos metadata...so everything is always in order!
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I do too. But sometimes I'm uploading photos from the last week for our homeschool group, and it's easier to just grab them from the folder rather than export from Lightroom.

tinkerbell1112 said:
I didn't even know you can do this!

couple questions:
is this your camera or your phone?
if phone, how do you do it?
if camera? do you use the same memory card? I've run into issues before when my large memory card has multiple photos and I try to copy them to a folder at the same time they say they're duplicates. Do you ever run into a situation where you are trying to place two #1's (Jan 1, 2017 and Jan 1, 2018) into the same place?
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My camera. My phone defaults to the date as the file name, so it's always in order.
I have 3 or 4 memory cards that I rotate through.
I have not. I store by year. For 2016, I actually reset the number at 11:55pm on 12/31/2015. So, all my new year photos were in the 2016 folder. In previous years, with the memory card that covers both years, I take an extra moment when I move the photos. I'll grab everything that is 2017 dated and drop it in 2017. And everything 2018 dated will go into 2018. With Windows, I can tell it to show me the duplicates, and it will tell me if they have the same metadata (size, date, and a thumbnail) so I can see if they are the same.
I did run into that problem last year because I was using 1 DSLR for scanning, and 1 for photos and didn't think about it when I went to drop the photos on the computer. I keep scanned in a separate photo, but didn't at that moment. Windows will allow you to add a number to the end and have it in the same folder if you want. So 001 and 001(1) can be in the same folder.
 
Nope. Have never done it. Have always had Canon's and chose to have them transferred to my computer and sort into folders by date.

The phone numbering system includes the date so when I download those photos I just transfer them into the daily folders created by the camera download. If there is no folder for that date, I create one.
 
bestcee said:
I have not. I store by year. For 2016, I actually reset the number at 11:55pm on 12/31/2015. So, all my new year photos were in the 2016 folder.
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My downloads actually sort the photos by the time/date taken so I'm guessing that even a reset like you do would still sort those photos to the 12/31/15 folder.
 
HavaDrPepper said:
My downloads actually sort the photos by the time/date taken so I'm guessing that even a reset like you do would still sort those photos to the 12/31/15 folder.
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Nope. Because I don't store my folders by day or month. I literally have 1 big folder for the year.
I let my camera do the folder by day thing and it drove me insane! So now, 1 folder for the year.
 
bestcee said:
Nope. Because I don't store my folders by day or month. I literally have 1 big folder for the year.
I let my camera do the folder by day thing and it drove me insane! So now, 1 folder for the year.
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1 folder for the year would drive me insane! I can usually remember a month when something happened so having the daily folders makes it easier for me finding them in Picasa. And, with Picasa showing the number of items in each folder, I can easily determine a day that had an event (like over 100 photos on 4/22/17... I knew that was a wedding I went to). Now at the end of the year, I move the daily download folders into a folder for the month and all 12 months are under the year. The downloads folder then starts fresh with the current year.

What works for one may not work for another. Glad that there are always options :)
 
berniek said:
The two options are set back to 0 or continue. So no such luck @Tree City
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Bummer. I'm going to try with my Canon 80D but I doubt it will let me choose a number. Maybe we should all complain so camera companies make "set your own number" a feature on future cameras!
@bestcee Courtney, I have LR but I don't use it. I've tried and I just get annoyed. Oh well. :)
 
We've never thought about doing this before, it makes sense though. Maybe I'll have hubby try it this year?
 
How fun to see the photo total at the end of the year. I don't reset my cameras. I use a variety of them (2 DSLR's, 1 mirrorless and camera phone) so the numbers are all over the place. I can see in LR though how many I have loaded for the year by checking my 2017 folder.
 
bestcee said:
So, I learned something this year.
Previous years, I always reset my camera numbering system on January 1st. Usually a few minutes after we ring in the New Year, when it's calm, and I won't miss something.

2017? I didn't. And I regretted it every single day! Because I love knowing that photo 0001 is going to be January. And photo 4000 is probably in the May-June area. And, since Windows naturally sorts by number, it's nice not to have to change the sort.

How about you? Do you ever reset your numbering system?
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Hmm never even thought about doing that. I don't use my camera as often as I should.
 
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