Frame Numbers vs. JPEG Numbers With CF Cards

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I have found that keeping track and storing my digital photos by their
creation date, and not the numerical sequence, is most useful. just use what
ZoomBrowser does automatically and you'll be satisfied.

Bye.

"mort" <mort@cloud9.net> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a new Canon Digital Elph S500, which uses CF cards. In using my
> 512 MB card, I have deleted many photos that were not good enough. I
> noticed that deleting a frame reduces the frame numbers by one, but does
> not reduce the JPEG number. For example, my CF card now has 52 frames,
> but JPEG numbers to 118.
>
> Is there any easy way to delete each JPEG number that has a frame
> deleted? In that way, the suffix of the JPEG number will be the same as
> the frame number, simplifying storage and keeping track of the photos. I
> would of course need a method that did not delete any needed photos.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Morton
>

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Hi Alan,

Thanks a lot for the very helpful suggestions.

Regards,

Morton



alan@alanlight.com wrote:

> mort wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a new Canon Digital Elph S500, which uses CF cards. In using
> my
> > 512 MB card, I have deleted many photos that were not good enough. I
> > noticed that deleting a frame reduces the frame numbers by one, but
> does
> > not reduce the JPEG number. For example, my CF card now has 52
> frames,
> > but JPEG numbers to 118.
> >
> > Is there any easy way to delete each JPEG number that has a frame
> > deleted? In that way, the suffix of the JPEG number will be the same
> as
> > the frame number, simplifying storage and keeping track of the
> photos. I
> > would of course need a method that did not delete any needed photos.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Morton
>
> The best way to accomplish this, is to re-number the pictures as they
> are copied from your memory card to your computer.
>
> My freeware utility, DIM : Digital Image Mover will accomplish this for
> you.
>
> It can be downloaded from http://www.alanlight.com/dim/Dim.htm
>
> Enjoy!