Having issues renaming with #'s
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:38 amI am rather new to Hazel, so I hope this isnt me just missing something totally obvious. My problem is when I set up a rule to rename a group of files with sequential #'s.
I have a TON of images that are named in sequence by my digital camera. However I want to give them a specific name rather than the standard DCBM0081.jpg type name that my camera gives them. So I set up a rule as follows.
If - Name contains - DCBM
Do the do the following - Rename file - with pattern - Lake Powell.2008.( # )(extension)
This works almost as hoped, until the # part. If, for example, I have images DCBM0001-50, the rename will make them Lake Powell.2008.51-101. Then if I run the rule again, it will rename them 102-152 and so on. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to make it start the numbering at 1. I have set the ( # ) rule to no change, and also to 000 and it does the same thing each time.
Hopefully this makes sense, I could really use some help with this, I so many images that I want to organize. Anyway help would be appreciated.
I have a TON of images that are named in sequence by my digital camera. However I want to give them a specific name rather than the standard DCBM0081.jpg type name that my camera gives them. So I set up a rule as follows.
If - Name contains - DCBM
Do the do the following - Rename file - with pattern - Lake Powell.2008.( # )(extension)
This works almost as hoped, until the # part. If, for example, I have images DCBM0001-50, the rename will make them Lake Powell.2008.51-101. Then if I run the rule again, it will rename them 102-152 and so on. For the life of me I cannot figure out how to make it start the numbering at 1. I have set the ( # ) rule to no change, and also to 000 and it does the same thing each time.
Hopefully this makes sense, I could really use some help with this, I so many images that I want to organize. Anyway help would be appreciated.