FIRST UTILISATION



Introduction

Installation

First utilisation
    Before starting
    User interface presentation

Managing your pictures

Sharing your pictures

Advanced Functions

Tutorials

Before starting

JBrout can rename your pictures while importing them. When jBrout is run for the first time, you’re asked the following question:

rename

It is strongly advised to answer "yes". Afterwards, when importing every new batch of pictures, jBrout will rename them using the date and time stored in the EXIF data of each picture.

Principle:
  • Each picture is renamed as "pAAAAMMJJ-hhmmss.jpg" (ex: p20060601_105645.jpg).
  • A picture with no valid EXIF date is not renamed.
  • Technically, jBrout always tries to do:  Date in the name of the file (if rename was chosen) = Modification date of the file = Internal EXIF date of the picture.
Pros:
  • The shooting date is kept in the name of the picture. It is a precaution measure if the internal EXIF date and the modification date of the file on the disk happened to be changed by accident (by a non abiding program for example),
  • In case of duplicated pictures, that makes their finding easier (same names but the suffixes "a" on the first photo and "b" on the second one,...: example p20060601_105645a.jpg and p20060601_105645b.jpg),
  • Your pictures are displayed sorted by dates in your file browser.
Cons:
  • If you already have many pictures with meaningful names you want to keep,
  • Or if you’re really keen on keeping the original names of your pictures.
Comment: The choice of the automatic renaming or not of your pictures by jBrout is final.  In either case, this has no incidence on performances and functionalities in jBrout.  It's just a usual way to name your pictures.
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