Canon's Zoombrowser is horrible... any substitues ?

marcwang · 17th August 2003

I've a A40 powershot, and I use Canon's zoombrowser to D/L (using a PCMCIA slot on my laptop) simply because if I use XP to d/l, XP labels the pictures "picture 1 , picture 2 , etc... " everytime I start to d/l a new batch. This results in similar file names. If I simply drag and save the files, the file names are like .... IMG1023, IMG1092 etc... , but that may result in duplicate file names as well. My A40 saves the files under folders, and it renews a folder whenever a certain number of pictures is reached... . Using zoom browser, the images are saved with the folder number infront of "IMG1023" ... so it looks like this (for folder 107) ... IMG107_1023 ... which results in a very unlikely case of duplication. I can't do this without the zoom browser.... . BUt I hate using the zoombrowser because the database sometimes loses everything, and I have to "refresh" it which takes a long time. ANother thing is if I rename, edit or rotate a picture in XP, I have to update the zoombrowser.

Is there a program out there that would take the files in my CF card, and rename it in a unique way ? I prefer to use XP to browse my pictures. Cheers

xmen1977 · 18th August 2003

well i hope the ACDSee 5.0 software is compatible for WinsXP

one of the highly recommended file database viewer

u can do file batch renaming for easy record

togu · 18th August 2003

Originally Posted by xmen1977

well i hope the ACDSee 5.0 software is compatible for WinsXP

one of the highly recommended file database viewer

u can do file batch renaming for easy record

Yes, it works on xp, one of the best.

sehsuan · 29th August 2003

Originally Posted by togu

Yes, it works on xp, one of the best.

and let us not forget, it is one of the fastest JPEG decoding viewing programs around. but of course, when it comes to CRW/RAW files...

defn · 3rd October 2003

ACDsee is good, but it gets buggy after a while... Hence the irritation... Always hangs up when I'm trying to view exif data from the browser...

Pinoy · 4th October 2003

How about a combo of free softwares, like Downloader from Breeze to download the images from your digicam, and Irfanview for image viewing (it does batch renaming, batch conversion, thumbnail viewing, slideshow etc)

:Later,

17th August 2003	#1
marcwang Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: East Singapore Posts: 1,023	Canon's Zoombrowser is horrible... any substitues ? I've a A40 powershot, and I use Canon's zoombrowser to D/L (using a PCMCIA slot on my laptop) simply because if I use XP to d/l, XP labels the pictures "picture 1 , picture 2 , etc... " everytime I start to d/l a new batch. This results in similar file names. If I simply drag and save the files, the file names are like .... IMG1023, IMG1092 etc... , but that may result in duplicate file names as well. My A40 saves the files under folders, and it renews a folder whenever a certain number of pictures is reached... . Using zoom browser, the images are saved with the folder number infront of "IMG1023" ... so it looks like this (for folder 107) ... IMG107_1023 ... which results in a very unlikely case of duplication. I can't do this without the zoom browser.... . BUt I hate using the zoombrowser because the database sometimes loses everything, and I have to "refresh" it which takes a long time. ANother thing is if I rename, edit or rotate a picture in XP, I have to update the zoombrowser. Is there a program out there that would take the files in my CF card, and rename it in a unique way ? I prefer to use XP to browse my pictures. Cheers __________________ Marc Wang Photography

4th October 2003	#6
Pinoy Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: ClubSNAP East Posts: 1,342	How about a combo of free softwares, like Downloader from Breeze to download the images from your digicam, and Irfanview for image viewing (it does batch renaming, batch conversion, thumbnail viewing, slideshow etc) :Later, __________________ Canon 40D¤BG-E2N¤10-22¤24-105 f4L IS¤100 f2.8 Macro¤70-200 f4L¤30mm f1.4¤2x580EXII

18th August 2003	#2
xmen1977 Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CCK Posts: 1,356	well i hope the ACDSee 5.0 software is compatible for WinsXP one of the highly recommended file database viewer u can do file batch renaming for easy record

3rd October 2003	#5
defn Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 335	ACDsee is good, but it gets buggy after a while... Hence the irritation... Always hangs up when I'm trying to view exif data from the browser...