[PLUG] Renaming photo files

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Ouellette <hapibeli at comcast.net> writes:

Dirk> I now understand why the same photos show up when I mount
Dirk> /dev/sda1, my Olympus camera. The file numbers are always the
Dirk> same in the camera, So how would I rename all photos in a
Dirk> directory in one command to make room for the new photos? 

As the many answers indicate, there are many solutions to this
problem.  

The one I adopted is just to create a new directory for each camera
download.  The directory is named with a date in YYYYMMDD format.  If
I download the camera more than once in a day, I append a letter 'b',
'c', 'd', and so on to distinguish them.  The camera seems to notice
when it's been cleared and starts renumbering from zero again.


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