hammam Posted March 20, 2009 Share #1 Posted March 20, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am baffled by this: upon downloading the content of my SD card to my computer, I am told that I'm about to write over a file with the same name. What? So, I check and, for some reason, the file numbering has reset itself to 0. It's the same folder on the card, only the numbers are back to low, like L1000012.DNG, etc... How can this happen? Can the upgrade to firmware 2.04 have done that? And what should I do now? This could soon be a mess. By the way, the picture numbering is set to «Continuously» in the menu, as usual. And I download via click and drag in the Finder of my Mac. No software involved here. And I have NOT used the «Set back now» function. Never. In fact, I didn't even know what it was until now. Thanks for your help. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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graeme_clarke Posted March 20, 2009 Share #2 Posted March 20, 2009 This happenened to me when I downloaded and installed v2.04. I too have counting set to continuous. I don't know how to reset the counter back to the point before I installed the new firmware. Does anyone know if and how it can be done? Graeme Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted March 20, 2009 Share #3 Posted March 20, 2009 Could it be that your "odometer" has turned over? File numbering only goes up to 9999, and I don't know if the folder number (the L100- part) goes up automatically or whether you have to change that manually. A few firmware versions ago, I had to change that manually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
4season Posted March 20, 2009 Share #4 Posted March 20, 2009 This happenened to me when I downloaded and installed v2.04. I too have counting set to continuous. I don't know how to reset the counter back to the point before I installed the new firmware. Does anyone know if and how it can be done? Graeme Yes, manually renumber an image on that SD card, put it back into the M8 and take a picture. The new photo should follow your chosen sequence. Works for folder numbers too. I don't know about firmware 2.04, but earlier 2.x versions would revert to L100-0001 unless you formatted the card in the camera before use. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammam Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share #5 Posted March 20, 2009 That did it. Of course. So simple. Brilliant. Thank you, 4season. And, no, I was far, far from getting to the 9999 image. And upgrading to recent firmware should NOT play havoc with your picture numbering like that. Don't you agree? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted March 20, 2009 Share #6 Posted March 20, 2009 That did it. Of course. So simple. Brilliant. Thank you, 4season. And, no, I was far, far from getting to the 9999 image. And upgrading to recent firmware should NOT play havoc with your picture numbering like that. Don't you agree? This has been a recuring problem and there is a simple workaround (FIX). Use a card to take one shot before you do a firmware update. Use a different card to do the update then put the original card back in and VIEW the one image you took. Then take another image and your numbering will remain the same. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammam Posted March 20, 2009 Author Share #7 Posted March 20, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thank you, Shootist, but I don't remember having had this kind of problem with previous upgrades, and I've done them all since vers. 2.00. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigfeet Posted March 20, 2009 Share #8 Posted March 20, 2009 Yep, I just sat here for the last half and hour renumbering my pictures from this past week. I foolishly forgot to put a photo on the SD card after the firmware update. Oh well, there is some time I will never get back in my life. Bigfeet Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shootist Posted March 21, 2009 Share #9 Posted March 21, 2009 Thank you, Shootist, but I don't remember having had this kind of problem with previous upgrades, and I've done them all since vers. 2.00. This was (IS?) a problem since V2 of the firmware. There have been --LONG-- threads on it. Not sure why you don't remember this problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted March 21, 2009 Share #10 Posted March 21, 2009 I thought I understood this problem, but my fix for the persistence of the 999LEICA file directory that appears when Leica has done some service, which I described in this thread didn't work for me in firmware 2.004 just now. I think there is still a bug in this generation of firmware, and will report it. Here's what I saw. After using "set back now" option to get the camera to forget the 999-directory, I successfully shot a 2 GB card, and formatted and shot another with the number continuing as I wanted it. Then I put in a half full 4 GB card which had been used before the camera went in for its upgrade (and was formatted using 2.002). I did not reformat, but used the unfilled half of the card. The 999 directory reappeared, and the numbering went back to the wrong numbers last seen when the camera came back from Solms. I backed up all the shots in the card and reformatted. No "set back now" option appeared. Leaving numbering set at "continuous" produced a 999 directory again. I set numbering to "standard" and reformatted again, renaming the 100 directory and file L100001.DNG that I shot to what I wanted to have. This time it seemed to work, and when I checked in the menu, the "set back now" option had reappeared under the format SD card action. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljclark Posted March 22, 2009 Share #11 Posted March 22, 2009 Interesting...I've often wondered why some folks are so concerned about keeping their file numbering stream intact, whilst I always look for the easiest way to set it back to 0001. I prefer to restart the numbering back to 0001 each day. My filing system is a little more complex, it appears, since I use a system built on a series of hierarchical folders. When I dump a card into one of my "source" folders (and after a quick cull of the horrible ones) I run the whole bunch through Faena to rename them -- changing all of the filename except the last three digits. Though a bit long, a filename might look like: NASMIAD-M8-090315-093.DNG. That tells me I shot it at the National Air & Space Museum's facility at Dulles, with the M8, on 15 March 2009, and this is the 93rd frame of the day. There is never any problem about saving a file with a duplicate name, since there are no duplicate names, and all the files are going into a unique destination folder anyway. Once renamed, and sorted into folders based on capture format (DNG and JPG) if used, a duplicate subdirectory titled "working" is built. All files I work on are sourced from "Working" so that, other than the renaming, the source files remain intact and as shot. Additional folders are built based upon the destination for finished files: "Web", "Team", etc. I shoot football (soccer) with a pair of D300s. Their filenaming is set so that cameras A and B are identified. A gets the 300, and B uses the zooms. Sure...I guess I could be sorting via software that uses the EXIF data, but I'm quite comfortable looking at a directory tree, and I like the ability to tell what the picture is about and when it was shot just by looking at the folder and filename. And I don't need to rely on any software other that something that can look at the directory structure. (Main photo storage is now a 1TB disk in the desktop unit, with regular total and incremental backups to an outboard eSATA RAID 5 array with a capacity of 2.7TB.) . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott kirkpatrick Posted March 22, 2009 Share #12 Posted March 22, 2009 There seem to be at least two major camps on numbering -- by the job and by the date. Olympus very nicely puts the date into the file number, but Leica's closest approach is to number continuously. I don't shoot professionally, but I still average 5000-10000 exposures per year in digital, so I file the DNG's in folders by date, and use the number mostly to keep from duplicating a filename. Anyway, having the camera come up with its own numbering scheme is not behavior that I appreciate. scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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