[X4U] Arbitrary naming

[Doug McNutt]

At 20:55 -0500 5/13/08, Ed Gould wrote:
>On May 13, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Allan Rube' wrote:
>
>> I have a digital frame that accepts different media. I have about  150 images
>> in it. However, the software which has a slideshow option only   #!
>> shows the
>> images in their name order. This gets tiring each.
>>
>> Is there either a slideshow program that would work with a digital  frame (I
>> doubt) or a program that would arbitrarily rename files in a  folder? This
>> second option would allow me to change the names (and thus order)  every once
>> in awhile.
>>
>> Allan
>> Nashua, New Hampshire
>> allanrube.com
>> www.nebirds.com
>>
>
>A better finder rename might do the job. Its shareware (IIRC) and I  use it daily for just about everything. It can't do certain things  (or should I say I haven't been able to figure out how) but it is  pretty flexible adding characters foldernames and dates and sequence  numbers .
>

I think one can order photos graphically in iPhoto. I also think that iPhoto can be persuaded to give up an ordered list of filenames. Well. . . ApleScript ought to be able to extract that somehow. 

Given that textual data it would be fairly easy to create a shell or perl script that would rename the files by adding 000_, 001_, 002_ etc. to the file names. 


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