How much scrolling back and forth is needed to see the relevant portion of the filename? And if they are further renamed sequentially for appearing in an orderly manner on a website, you've lost both date/picNum archiving order, and content description sorting order.Īlso some file names cannot be changed.webpages, and databases Break! If archived numerically, filenames have limited value in reflecting content. People would quite shooting at this point.(hey, give it back to the pros.). To look at a directory and See what the files are is natural.Īlso, What method would you suggest for giving a meaningful name to each digital image? Renaming all Digital files to Fully and Acurately describe their content is a near-impossible, nightmarish project (a picture = a thousand words - can u really describe an entire photo, distinguishing it from all others using worrds? consisely? If so, how do u name the edited versions, and the resized versions, and are these filenames really practical in other apps? ), If they are description-based should "grandad" or "bestfriend" or "hawaii" or "birthday" Always come first in the filename? How do u find All bestfriend photos if sometimes 2 or 3 words come before it (birthdayHawaiiGrandadBestfriend)? How could u posibly archive that method of filenaming? Oh, and how time-consuming.
And those generated photo filenames are unwieldy for most. These days, everyone shoots and uploads mounds of digital photos. These steps are not well suited for a casual uploader/photographer. My method worked fine, but required software others won't have. Plus each image had NEF, JPG,and xmp versions as well as and multiple sizes. In this case, the file names made sense for the original purpose, (based on webpage useage) but to select this odd group in a filename list, the numbers in the filenames were unwieldy and had too much overlap to be useful here.
Had I used Salamander instead of FileZilla, I simply could have switched to thumbnail view, selected and uploaded each image set into its folder, and been done. Select the few that needed to be ftp'd for a bug report, copy them into another temp directory, group them into subfolders, then upload those folders, then finally, delete the temp directory.
Especially when comparing directories with many image files, or when selecting a few scattered images amongst a directory of hundreds. But once in a while, a quick visualization is a necessity. Generally, filenames and details is the best method. Especially since it shows thumbs of photoshop (psd) and raw files (such as NEF) as well. PictView plugin as Altap Salamander 2.5+ uses would be extremely helpful.
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