After changing memory card, I want the camera to name the next file by continuing from the previously saved file name sequence. How to accomplish this?
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User Manual, under SD Card / Firmware > File Numbering; states "After you take a picture or video clip, the camera will automatically save it with a sequential number. You can use this to reset the file numbering to 1."
And the File Numbering screen states "Create a new directory and reset the file number." with choices "No" and "Yes".
I've tried this, with selection set to "No", but the first photo on the new card has a file named as sequence 1, rather than one greater than the previous file name sequence.
WPZ2 Continue file name sequence
Re: WPZ2 Continue file name sequence
Hi,
I looked at your question and it's a legitimate problem. suppose you backed up your photos to a cloud service and you have already the sequence 100_0001.JPG to 100_1000.JPG backed up. you initialize a new smart card and you would want to start from 1001 in order to not have name overlapping.
I'm made this test with mine WPZ2:
1) I have a new flash with a few photos from 0001 to 0017.
2) I connect the WPZ2 to the PC and created an empty image file 100_0300.JPG in the DCIM/100KWPZ2/ folder.
3) safely disconnected the drive (read WPZ2) from PC e restarted the camera.
4) took one photo
5) reconnected the WPZ2 to the PC, now the last photo is name 100_0301.JPG
despite all the warning you could have found it seems to me a good way to force the camera to start from a selected index.
still it would be nice to have a feedback from the support if this method could be considered safe or not.
here what I see from my PC once I connected WPZ2 the second time (sorry I only run linux):
ls -lrt /run/media/vortex/KODAK\ WPZ2/DCIM/100KWPZ2/ | tail -7
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 94871 Sep 1 09:14 100_0016.THM
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 3794981 Sep 1 09:14 100_0016.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 98843 Sep 1 09:15 100_0017.THM
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 3349196 Sep 1 09:15 100_0017.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 0 Sep 1 14:20 100_0300.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 69432 Sep 1 14:21 100_0301.THM
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 2610283 Sep 1 14:21 100_0301.JPG
the THM files (the thumbinails, is not needed to make the camera skip at 301. as you can see the file 100_0300.JPG is 0 bytes, an empty one.
let me know if it works for you
nack
I looked at your question and it's a legitimate problem. suppose you backed up your photos to a cloud service and you have already the sequence 100_0001.JPG to 100_1000.JPG backed up. you initialize a new smart card and you would want to start from 1001 in order to not have name overlapping.
I'm made this test with mine WPZ2:
1) I have a new flash with a few photos from 0001 to 0017.
2) I connect the WPZ2 to the PC and created an empty image file 100_0300.JPG in the DCIM/100KWPZ2/ folder.
3) safely disconnected the drive (read WPZ2) from PC e restarted the camera.
4) took one photo
5) reconnected the WPZ2 to the PC, now the last photo is name 100_0301.JPG
despite all the warning you could have found it seems to me a good way to force the camera to start from a selected index.
still it would be nice to have a feedback from the support if this method could be considered safe or not.
here what I see from my PC once I connected WPZ2 the second time (sorry I only run linux):
ls -lrt /run/media/vortex/KODAK\ WPZ2/DCIM/100KWPZ2/ | tail -7
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 94871 Sep 1 09:14 100_0016.THM
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 3794981 Sep 1 09:14 100_0016.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 98843 Sep 1 09:15 100_0017.THM
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 3349196 Sep 1 09:15 100_0017.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 0 Sep 1 14:20 100_0300.JPG
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 69432 Sep 1 14:21 100_0301.THM
-rw-r--r-- 1 vortex users 2610283 Sep 1 14:21 100_0301.JPG
the THM files (the thumbinails, is not needed to make the camera skip at 301. as you can see the file 100_0300.JPG is 0 bytes, an empty one.
let me know if it works for you
nack