Hello JC,.

Transfering pics to your PC means copying them and not moving, which deletes after copy. So after copy, the pics actually stay in the camera (internal or card), and the next shots are numbered +1. If you have moved your pics (Drop N Drag)) then you start again. That's how it goes; if not, then starting on an 'empty' storage and the numbers continue from the last 'remebered shot, then try to imagine what happens when a) you get to the max. b) you have moved files, c)when you want or expect to start at zero.

This is all normal IT-Standards, really. The storage is nothing more than external-memory.

Does this help?.

Regards, Nosmo King..

Hello Nosmo,.

Thanks for your reply. I'm sorry, when I said "transferring" I meant "moving". This is what I have been doing with my Olympus for almost two years (and would like to keep doing with the Exilim I want to buy): 1-Every time the camera/card is nearly full I transfer (move) all the files to a temporary folder in my desktop PC. 2-I then use "ThumbsPlus" to generate thumbnail images all of them (that is similar to File Explorer's miniature view, but offers many advantages). 3-After examining each one of them, I move them to their final folders (which may already contain previously taken pictures), sorting by subject. By doing that I keep together all the pictures of "My Family"; all of "My Dogs"; all of "My Flowers"; all of "My Trip to A"; etc.

In other words, NO TWO IMAGES HAVE THE SAME FILENAME (unless I want them to have). There is no danger of running out of names either, because the picture date is also coded into the filename, allowing you to take 9999 photos on every day of the year, all with different filenames. In case you want to restart at 0001, there is a menu option for that too. I took more than 8000 pictures since I bought the Olympus, and I got so fond of this procedure, that I will not buy another camera if it forces me to change it. Please tell me if the Exilims Z3 and Z4 have the "Continuous File Naming" option.

It is the Exilim P600. Regards,.

Joo Carvalho..

Hello JC,.

Thanks for your words.

Very interesting, I must say. After I had written, I went into thought about your mail, and I recognized what you were getting at.

I played with my EXILIM (Z40) and came to see the advantages of memory-sequencing, and now you have made it clear that the Olympus has an extremely fine feature available and I can appriciate your needs.

So, now I am also 'dissatisfied' with Casio's Delete-and-Restart method. I too have not found a way around this problem.

I had moved half of my pics to my PC, then took several more shots. Upon moving them to the same PC-file, I was faced with duplicate names. I have to presume that it is a fact that the numbering starts at zero.

Perhaps Casio gets some feedback (or reads chat at sites like these), and may in the future provide a donwloadable fix.

Regards, Nosmo King 03.06.2004 Nrnberg..

Hi Nosmos, I downloaded the Exilim's P600 User's Guide from "casio.com" and found what I was looking for on page 172: "Specifying the File Name Serial Number Generation Method". Two options are available, "Reset" and "Continuous". The second one is the one that remembers the last used file name number. Although it is not as clever as Olympus' solution because it does not code the date into the file name, it is reasonable. I think your Exilim model has that too. Look for a "File No." option in your Setup Menu.

In case you are curious, this is how Olympus does it: All Olympus file names look like this: "PmddNNNN.jpg" (or "*.tif"). -"P" is always present;.

-"m" codes the month, going from "1" to "9" and "a" to "c" as in hexadecimal numbering;.

-"dd" are the days form "01" to "31";.

-"NNNN" is sequential, going from 0001 t0 9999. I will buy the P600, but I will be looking for a replacement for the EX-S2 as my "Shirt Pocket Camera". It was nice talking to you. Thanks,.

Joo Carvalho..

Hello again, JC. A thousand THNX for your tip. I have found the setting, but as yet haven't had the time to try it out. If I had read ALL the instructions before (but who does that, really?), then perhaps I wouldn't have had to spend so much time shuffling files and renaming on my PC. Thanks and regards, Nosmo King/Nrnberg Have fun and good luck with the P600 (I was hovering over it too, but I wanted a POCKET camera, and this was a little too large to shove in and out of my jeans...