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I need to start getting a grip on my digital archives this Christmas.
\nIt would speed things up if there were a piece of PC software that does this:<\/p>\n

It lets you either lassoo or CRL + click select a bunch of files and then select year > month > day so that file something.jpg gets renamed 20071123-something.jpg and other selected files get the date at the beginning too.<\/p>\n

I’ve used Lupas rename in the past, but it doesn’t quite do what I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I need to start getting a grip on my digital archives this Christmas. It would speed things up if there were a piece of PC software that does this: It lets you either lassoo or CRL + click select a bunch of files and then select year > month > day so that file something.jpg gets renamed 20071123-something.jpg and other selected files get the date at the beginning too. I’ve used Lupas rename in the past, but it doesn’t quite do what I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nIs there photo-archiving software that does this? - Aberth Digital Storytelling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aberth.com\/digitalstorytelling\/is-there-photo-archiving-software-that-does-this\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is there photo-archiving software that does this? - Aberth Digital Storytelling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I need to start getting a grip on my digital archives this Christmas. 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