[Boucher_Photography.com]

I'm trying to download a wedding I shot over the weekend and according to DLpro I have 92 problem files being indicated as "Name Clash".

I did a search on the forum but did not understand the explanation in the reply from the Breeze employee.

I right clicked and looked at the download status of one of the name clash files and it said the following...

File: CRW_0015.CRW
Size: 6232006 bytes
Timestamp: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:10:50 PM
Status: Name Clash

This file has not been downloaded yet.
The download source contains 2 files with the same download path but different sizes or timestamps.
1) File:E:\DCIM\100CANON\CRW_0039.CRW
Size different: 6544224 bytes


Now when I read that I can't make sense of it because these 2 files have completely different names. One ends in 0015 and the other in 0039. What am I missing here? It's irritating that I can look at a huge list of files to download that all have different file names yet I can't download them because DLpro won't let me.

I set DLpro to name the files as "couple's initials, -, letter of memory card, and then the token for sequence of numbers.

What gives? Every since I started using this program a month ago I've had some problem with my files being downloaded. Never had this problem with lame programs like ZoomBrowserEX, picasa, etc. Granted they don't have as many custom options as DLpro but they let you get your data to the HD as needed.

I would just use windows at this point but I have to have wedding files organized and named in a very anal manner since I have 13 CF cards to download ranging from 2GB to 512MB each.

[DavidB]

The clash is about what will happen if you download the files, not how they are named on the card. The problem will arise if (1) files already in the download directory have the same names as those problem files on the card will have after they are downloaded or (2) your naming scheme creates duplicate file names as you download.

If you empty the download directory, and your files then download successfully, the likely problem is that your file naming scheme is creating duplicates as files from different cards are downloaded into the same directory.

If the problem is with the naming scheme, I really need to know which tokens you are using and which camera model you have (it is obviously a Canon, but, sadly, not all Canon cameras can use all the tokens in DL Pro), before advising. But a good start is to try using %o as your 'uniqueness' token, because it reproduces the Canon filename, which will be unique, at least until the numbering rolls over after image 9999.

I hope this helps.

[Boucher_Photography.com]

Hi David,

Thanks for the reply. Yeah it's definitely not the first problem you mentioned where the files are already in the directory with the same name as the ones about to be downloaded. The directory is brand new and empty, certain of that.

The problem then must lie in the naming scheme as you mentioned, but I still can't figure out why. Here is what I'm trying to download at the moment and the settings I have in my DLpro preferences...

Download directory set to: Y:\Shoots\April and Scott
(this is a completely empty folder ready to accept files)

Filename: AS-A_%N3
("AS" is the couples initials, "A" is the letter of the CF card it's being downloaded from, and %N3 is the token I'm using for sequence of 3 numbers.



Hope this explains things more, THank you for your continued help,
Weston

[Chris Breeze]

What's happening is you're getting name clashes from images taken on different days. Setting the download directry to Y:\Shoots\April and Scott will download all the images on the card to the same folder. %N3 is a date based sequence number which starts numbering from 001 for each new date's images. This means that if you have images from more than one day's shooting on the card the names will clash. You can avoid this by using the token %n3 or by including the date (%d) in the filename or download directory.