Namexif: Batch rename your digital camera files with the date and time

I wrote a Nautilus script which does this in Linux with just a couple of clicks a couple of months ago :)

Someone may be interested:
http://mundogeek.net/nautilus-script

I've been using the Photo Organizer FotoAlbum (http://www.fototime.com) to manage and rename my 20,000+ and growing photo base for quite awhile.

Note: Does not work with .nef/.cr2 raw files.

Note: does not work with .NEF/.CR2 RAW files

Thanks for the tip! I just renamed a couple THOUSAND vacation photos. I post on Image Bam (http://www.imagebam.com/) and they have a 3MB per image limit, but my nice new camera puts out 3.25MB images. So I use PIXResizer (http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm) to change the size. It works with entire directories, changes the size to whatever you set it to, up to 1200 pixel width, can change the format (bmp, jpg, pnp, etc), and other info. I always tell it to increase the size on images that are smaller than the selected size. And, very important for us here, I always tell it to keep the EXIF data.... lucky for me so I could use Namexif!

RenameMaster and XnView are both good in these areas. I have a script in RM that gives me one-click renaming with date & time.

jhead (http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/) does that as well, and since it's command-line, it may be useful for people who want to put it into a script that does other processing.

I use it like this:

jhead -a -exonly -c -ft -nf%1%%Y%%m%%d_%%H%%M%%S **\*.jpg

(it'll rename everything in the current folder and all sub-folders recursively)

Thanks for the linkback Downloadsquad!

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