I am not sure what brand of digital camera you are using. My camera (Olympus C-700) numbers the files with the date incorporated in number, such that pictures taken on two different days will be different. If the date is not set up on starting to use the camera, file names will be the same on successive days. Check with your owner's manual.
Like many others I use Picassa to find my pics, but every time I download from my camera the picture file numbers are the same ie. DGS001 and up, although I store them in different folders, I can't combine them into one because of this. Is there a simple way of renaming blocks of pictures, my biggest block is about 500 (taken on one of our holidays).
Hope you can help.
Chris Archer, Wrexham, Wales UK.

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