[MMP]

Hi,

I don't think this problem is described elsewhere in this forum, but please re-direct me if it is.

This is my situation:

I shoot JPEG on CF cards. The camera is set to seqentially number i.e. it does not go back to zero at anytime. A typical shoot is spread across 2 cards, sometimes 3, always shot sequentially, i.e. I fill one up, move to the next. I never swap them around.

I have DLP set up to download the cards into a folder based on date and job name i.e. %d %J.

DLP also renames each shot with the following convention - %n3_%J

I get a "time different" with some of the images on the 2nd or 3rd cards. Here are the numbers from today's shoot:

Card 1 contains images DSCF1447 to DSCF1557
Card 2 contains images DSCF1558 to DSCF1710

Card 1 downloads no problem.
Card 2 says images DSCF1669 to DSCF1672 are 'new files' the rest are all 'Time Different'

In this case right clicking image DSCF1668 says "The file appears to have been downloaded already but the time stamp of the downloaded file is different from the source file". But the source file and the downloaded file have differnt sizes and times:

Source File - 4796186 bytes Time - 26 April 2005 15:12:23

Downloaded File - 4994745 bytes Time - 26 April 200514:15:25

I want to end up with all of the same shoot, in the same folder, numbered from 001 to nnn.

I've been using manual workaround until now, but thought I'd seek proper advice form users of this forum. (And of course Chris !)

Am I missing something? Can DLP do what I want?

Thanks for taking the time to read this post

Mark

[Chris Breeze]

The %n3 is numbering the images from 001 for each card you download and so you're getting duplicate filenames when you download the second and third cards.

One solution is to use %N1%n3_%J
%N1 will be 1 for the first card, 2 for the next card and so on (it starts from 1 again if you download on a different day).

The %n and %N tokens need to be used with care because you can easily end up with duplicate filenames and they also make it impossible for DLPro to keep track of images downloaded from previous cards.

I prefer to use the image number given by the camera to avoid duplicate filenames even if it does result in longer filenames. e.g. %d_%t_%r
The advantage of doing it this way is the download filename only depends on the source image and its shooting data and so DLPro will only report duplicates or other problems if I accidentally try to download the same CF card twice.

[Cliff]

Hi Chris,

I am having the same problem but I am only using the following string:

"spicer_%r"

What I want is to have my name followed by the original filename and then in BB I sort by timestamp and rename as shown to deal with the 2 cameras. What am I doing wrong to get the time error message.

Cliff

[Chris Breeze]

It sounds as though the problem is due to different images on different cards having the same numbers. Is your camera set to continuous numbering or does it reset to 0001 every time a blank CF card is inserted?