Numbering Tokens in Image File Rename
Numbering tokens behave differently when used during an import compared to being used in the Library Module. In all cases the choices using the pull down allow you have leading zeroes in order to have all the numbers be the same number of digits. For example, if you use a (1) flavor, numbers would be ….8, 9, 10, …. 98, 99, 100, etc. but if you used an (001) flavor you’d have …008, 009. 010, 098, 099, 100 but then 998, 999, 1000. Again, use the pull down to see the different flavors of each type.
Import dialog version
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Library Module version
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In the Import Dialog version, there are separate token lines for Import #, Image #, and Sequence # and when you expand Sequence #, it has entries for Sequence # and Total #. In the Library Module version there is only one token line for numbering but the pull down has flavors for Sequence #, Image #, and Total # (there is no Import #). I think they did these differently just to drive people writing documentation tutorials crazy.
Sequence # – This is the most commonly used numbering method. It generates sequential numbers starting with a value you specify when you use the template.
Import # - This option is only available when editing a file rename template or using a file rename template from the import dialog. It is a number representing each use of a file rename template that contains this token in an import batch. The first time a template containing this token is used the number will be 1, the next time you do an import using a template containing this token the number will be 2, and so on. If you do an import and don’t do file renaming or select a template that does not include this token, then that import batch number is not incremented.
Image # - This is very similar to “Sequence #”. When used in an import operation it remembers where it left off the last time a template containing this token was used in an import operation and picks up at that point. When used in the Library Module it always starts with 1.
Total # - This provides a number representing the number of images being renamed this time. In other words the number of images selected in the Library Module Grid of Filmstrip. It is not available in the import dialog. It is typically used as the 2nd number in a name such as “Image 27 of 32”.
When used in the Import Dialog, tokens for “Import #” and “Image #”, the starting value used in each import is one greater than the last value used.. The current high water mark for these two tokens can be seen and reset in the Catalog Settings dialog (menu: Edit -> Catalog Settings ->File Handling tab) as shown below.