I'm sure this has been discussed previously but there is just so much to get through..
I bought an external hard-drive recently and i want to back up my music and photos should anything happen my wee little mac. I only use film for my photos (i know, i know.. let's not get into it) so i have the films scanned and the photos come back on a CD as CV0001 and CV0002 etc.. iPhoto has no problem with the fact that therefore have about 100 different photos named CV0001 and so on.
However, when i try to transfere them onto the ext HD it has an problem with the fact that there are multiple files with the same nomenclature.
So.. is there some setting i can change so that the HD accepts muliple idenical file names? The most obvious solutiion i can see is just change all the file names to CV0001_1, CV0001_2, CV0001_3 etc.. but with just under 3000 photos, this will take some time and be hidiously tedious.
Does anyone know of any way to rename batches of files? is there a program i can use? anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
I bought an external hard-drive recently and i want to back up my music and photos should anything happen my wee little mac. I only use film for my photos (i know, i know.. let's not get into it) so i have the films scanned and the photos come back on a CD as CV0001 and CV0002 etc.. iPhoto has no problem with the fact that therefore have about 100 different photos named CV0001 and so on.
However, when i try to transfere them onto the ext HD it has an problem with the fact that there are multiple files with the same nomenclature.
So.. is there some setting i can change so that the HD accepts muliple idenical file names? The most obvious solutiion i can see is just change all the file names to CV0001_1, CV0001_2, CV0001_3 etc.. but with just under 3000 photos, this will take some time and be hidiously tedious.
Does anyone know of any way to rename batches of files? is there a program i can use? anyone's help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks