What file naming convention to use?

fstopFitzgeraldfstopFitzgerald Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
edited October 4, 2010 in SmugMug Support
I have tried endlessly to photograph an event...rename them...then upload to smug only to be hopelessly thwarted in getting them in the sequence I created.
Drag to arrange doesn't show me the file name (how inconvenient) and whatever file naming schemata I have created fails to follow my uploaded sequence.
Can someone, with a kind heart, please share with me, exactly how to name your sequenced photos so they upload in the order you created...ex. in Lightroom 3)

I will be eternally grateful!

Michael

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Every event I've ever done has had the photos uploaded in date/time sequence. Is that not a convenient way to sort them for you?
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  • fstopFitzgeraldfstopFitzgerald Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Andy wrote: »
    Every event I've ever done has had the photos uploaded in date/time sequence. Is that not a convenient way to sort them for you?


    Andy: Thank you for your reply. Here is a gallery....no autosort applied, arranged by, as you said, date & time taken. The sequence presented by Smug has no relationship to date & time taken. Could this be a metadata problem? I do a lot of post processing. Then I arrange in LR3, rename in my sequence and post.

    Thanks
    This is, and has been, driving me nuts.
    Also, why no filenames visible in "drag to arrange?"

    Michael
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Set this to date taken, it's 'none' right now.
    20101005-em1674a87uhkqmpwsec8uxq4ah.jpg

    Sidenote: you should really, really tone down the saturation - either from in-camera processing or from your LR processing.
    Andy

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  • fstopFitzgeraldfstopFitzgerald Registered Users Posts: 26 Big grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Andy wrote: »
    Set this to date taken, it's 'none' right now.
    20101005-em1674a87uhkqmpwsec8uxq4ah.jpg

    Sidenote: you should really, really tone down the saturation - either from in-camera processing or from your LR processing.

    Thanks for the headzup...the client really likes the saturation.
    As far as the sequencing...as you can see by the new "Date Taken" arrangement, it makes no difference. Check out the file numbers assigned by LR3...which roughly follow date taken and you can see how whacked out this is when Smug arranges.
    I really struggle with this.
    Thanks
    Michael
    www.neffworks.com
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