Add optional suffix instead of counter

[fotoschubser]

Dear all,

Looks like I have found my new tool for organizing my photos and videos. :-)

Is it possible to use optional suffixes instead of counters if the output file name would become a duplicate ?

What I mean is:
In general I want to rename all my photos to:

YYYYMMDD_hhmmss.EXT

But unfortunately this is unique if you have wife and kids who use the "burst mode".
So I have many photos from different cameras which shall get an additional suffix like FileNumber, SubSecTimeOriginal or FileName instead of the counter. But only in case it is required.

e.g.



P4140137.jpg > 20140414_185213.jpg

P4140138.jpg > 20140414_185236(P4140138).jpg instead of 20140414_185236.jpg
P4140139.jpg > 20140414_185236(P4140139).jpg instead of 20140414_185236-1.jpg
P4140140.jpg > 20140414_185236(P4140140).jpg instead of 20140414_185236-2.jpg
P4140141.jpg > 20140414_185236(P4140141).jpg instead of 20140414_185236-3.jpg


Is this possible ?

Kind regards
fotoschubser

[Phil Harvey]

I can't think of any easy way to do this.

[Hayo Baan]

Like Phil already said, this isn't really possible. It would be possible if you'd have it always add e.g., the filenumber (then you just include it in the rename string). I use a very similar way of (uniquely) naming my files, I chose to always include the subsectime; it's just two additional digits and these do not impact e.g., sorting.

Note: even subsectime wasn't enough in my case as when shooting with multiple cameras you can still end up with duplicates. To work around this I included the camera model in the name (I don't have multiple cameras of the same model) as well.

[fotoschubser]

Phil, Hayo,

Thanks. After playing around with exiftool all day long, I will stick with the counter.
Since it has the same order as the original file names it is sufficient for my needs.

Kind regards,
fotoschubser