Brian Livingston's Tool Tips
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If you ever unintentionally delete photos from your digital camera, all is not lost. Some, if not all, digital camera systems use FAT. If so, fire up your handy un-eraser (Norton, Fix-It, etc.) and un-erase the images.
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If you've ever needed to rename a bunch of files, say those digital photos you just un-erased, you've probably used the DOS utility REName. But did you know Windows XP(tm) also provides a way to do something similar? In Windows Explorer, multi-select the files you want to rename. Press F2. The new name you type will be applied to all the files, plus an incremental number at the end.
Windows XP adds (1), (2), (3) and so forth to the ends of the filenames you selected (preceding the dot and the extension). You can force Windows to start with a number of your choice by including it within parentheses in the name that you type. For example, if you enter Foo(10).txt, the additional files will be renamed Foo(11).txt, Foo(12).txt, and so on. Perhaps you'll want to use this to give your digital-camera photos meaningful titles, replacing filenames like DC0001.jpg with Lucy(10), Lucy(11), etc.
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