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["Wesley Harp" <wesleyharp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since I am currently re-doing my system, I thought I'd bring up the
discussion here.  How do you name your images?  Do you just use the camera's
name, or let the import program name them for you?  Do you have a complex
system involving the mayan calendar and  an abacus?   I'd previously just
been using the camera's file names, but that's become an issue.  I used to
have a camera that reset its numbering every time so I ended up with a lot
of files named the same thing.  My current camera does consecutive naming,
but my dad has the same brand camera so we're running into duplicate file
names again.  I've been going through and using pyrenamer to change some of
the file names, but without any sort of a system.  Unfortunately that old
camera also reset the time so the exif dates on those pictures are all off.
I stumbled on this while looking for something on F-spot:
http://exiflow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page  It looks interesting and I
might start using that for my file naming.

Same goes for tagging, if you do use tagging.  Do you allow spaces in your
tags?  If you do names, do you do last name, first name or vice versa?

Wes