Iphoto randomly renaming file on save

I was trying to figure out how to get my edited images from iPhoto on my iPad onto Lightroom on my Mac.
So I Shared a couple of the edited images to Camera Roll.
Now when I connect my iPad to my Mac and look at them in the import dialogue in Lightroom, it appears that the save process has randomly renamed the files. What was originally img_0127.cr2 has now become img_0169.jpg - but there is another different image right next to it that is also called img_0169.jpg. If I make further changes and save them, the file is renamed yet again and is now img_0172.jpg. The original raw file is still there with its original name, but I suspect that the metadata has been changed as Lightroom thinks it is a new file even though I have already downloaded it from the CF card.
Would it not be more logical to name the saved jpg files as img_0127-1.jpg, img_0127-2.jpg etc ?

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// Reads the next line of input. Returns null to indicate the end
// of stream.
public String readLine() throws IOException {
StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer();
int result;
String line;
do {
result = this.readLine(buf, 0, buf.length); // this.readLine() does +=
if (result != -1) {
sbuf.append(new String(buf, 0, result, "ISO-8859-1"));
} while (result == buf.length); // loop only if the buffer was filled
if (sbuf.length() == 0) {
return null; // nothing read, must be at the end of stream
sbuf.setLength(sbuf.length() - 2); // cut off the trailing \r\n
return sbuf.toString();
// A pass-through to ServletInputStream.readLine() that keeps track
// of how many bytes have been read and stops reading when the
// Content-Length limit has been reached.
public int readLine(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
if (totalRead >= totalExpected) {
return -1;
else {
if (len > (totalExpected - totalRead)) {
len = totalExpected - totalRead; // keep from reading off end
int result = in.readLine(b, off, len);
if (result > 0) {
totalRead += result;
return result;
// Class to filters MacBinary files to normal files on the fly
// Optimized for speed more than readability
class MacBinaryDecoderOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream {
int bytesFiltered = 0;
int dataForkLength = 0;
public MacBinaryDecoderOutputStream(OutputStream out) {
super(out);
public void write(int b) throws IOException {
// Bytes 83 through 86 are a long representing the data fork length
// Check <= 86 first to short circuit early in the common case
if (bytesFiltered <= 86 && bytesFiltered >= 83) {
int leftShift = (86 - bytesFiltered) * 8;
dataForkLength = dataForkLength | (b & 0xff) << leftShift;
// Bytes 128 up to (128 + dataForkLength - 1) are the data fork
else if (bytesFiltered < (128 + dataForkLength) && bytesFiltered >= 128) {
out.write(b);
bytesFiltered++;
public void write(byte b[]) throws IOException {
write(b, 0, b.length);
public void write(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
// If the write is for content past the end of the data fork, ignore
if (bytesFiltered >= (128 + dataForkLength)) {
bytesFiltered += len;
// If the write is entirely within the data fork, write it directly
else if (bytesFiltered >= 128 &&
(bytesFiltered + len) <= (128 + dataForkLength)) {
out.write(b, off, len);
bytesFiltered += len;
// Otherwise, do the write a byte at a time to get the logic above
else {
for (int i = 0 ; i < len ; i++) {
write(b[off + i]);

I am also need to rename a file and extension while uploadinf the file to the server. The oreilly example seems only save as the same file name and ext. I wonder if you have the ability chANGE OIT OR NOT. pLEASE LET ME KNOW
thanks
kansen

Powershell to rename file based on output

Good Afternoon
I was wondering if someone could assist with the below
1. We currently have a system in place whereby a document is scanned onto the system as an image and this is saved in a central location folder
2. I then run tesseract within powershell on this location folder, which is a program that can extract the image to txt file and this converts the image to a txt file and saves in the same location with the same name
3. What i would like to do is for powershell to then search the extracted txt file and look for a particular regexpression (which i have) and to then rename the original file from point 1 to the output
Is the above possible at all
This is what i have so far, what this seems to do is look in my ocr folder and run tesseract and the output txt files end up in the same folder
$TargetFolder1 = “c:\ocr\test\file.txt”
$regex = '[0-9]{5,6}[\.][0-9]{0,1}'
$result = out-file ("c:\OCR\Match\""imtest" + ".txt")
select-string -Path $Targetfolder1 -list -Pattern $regex | % { $_.Matches } | % { $_.Value } > $_result
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR"
Apologies of it seems confusing
Barrie

Hi
Many thanks for the info so far, much appreciated
I have read around on the Microsoft Powershell learning site but becoming slightly confused with some more piping
I previously mentioned that the tesseract program converts the ocr scanned tif file into a text file - Is it possible instead to have this output to a variable of some sort and then for my reg expression carry out the search in the variable and
then rename the tif file based on the result of the regexpression
Previously i have ran tesseract on a tif file via powershell which in turn produces a text file of the document in the file location
I think it would be best if i ran tesseract on the tif file, then for powershell to export the results somewhere and the reg expression query can be run and the final result will rename the original tif file with the output of the reg expression
Hope this makes sense and many thanks for help so far
Regards
Barrie

IPhoto Questions (including rotating movie & save locations)

I've owned my new Macbook Pro for a little over a month now. Prior to this I have been using Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc...) on my primary computer and MS Windows for many, many years. I am very used to the way Linux and Windows handle files including imported photos. Prior to my Macbook purchase, I was managing my iPhone and iPad with Windows 7. Please pardon my Mac OS X ignorance. I am new to this.
Here's my hardware:
Macbook Pro 15" Retina 512gb (mid 2014) with OS X 10.10.1
iPhone 5s (16gb)
iPad 4 retina (64gb)
Now the questions... When I import photos from my iPad or iPhone into iPhoto, the photo's do not go into the "Pictures" directory unlike Windows. I did some research and apparently iPhoto stores your photos in a database similar to the way iTunes works with music. However, unlike iTunes, you cannot browse the .jpg's and .mov's in the finder, you have to open them in iPhoto to see them. This creates a problem for me in that I can't back up my photos manually anymore to an external hard drive. I have to rely solely on Time Machine. I don't like that. Also, I'd just like to be able to browse my photos in finder. I want access to the .jpg's and .mov files so that I can copy them to USB thumb drives, etc... Is there a way to import your photos from the iPhone or iPad into the "Pictures" folder on my Macbook, then into a date sub folder similar to the way Windows imports photos? This would be preferable for me because I want access to the original files in finder, not just through iPhoto. If there is an "open in finder" option in iPhoto, obviously the photos are stored in folders on the Macbook. Why can't you just browse them from finder without using iPhoto? iTunes lets you do this. Is there a setting in iPhoto that I am missing that will allow this? If not there should be one similar to the iTunes "keep iTunes media folder organized" option.
Also, when I have to rotate a movie that is located in the iPhoto library, I know that I can click "open in finder" from iPhoto and open the .mov in Quicktime to rotate the movie. However, when saving (there's no save option, you have to close and are prompted to export) there is no option to save in the original location and rewrite the movie in iPhoto. The only option is to store in one of the browsable file folders (Movies, Pictures, Documents, etc...). Consequently, when opening iPhoto, the movie file remains in the original rotation, unchanged. How do I have Quicktime save to the original location of the movie in the iPhoto library? You can not open iPhoto Library.photolibrary from within Quicktime and browse to the folder containing the original movie. This is mind boggling to me. I suppose I could delete the original movie in iPhoto and import the rotated movie into iPhoto, but this seems like a huge waste of steps, time and is really inefficient.
I don't like not having control over my photos. I'd like to be able to view all of them in my finder. Am I missing a preferences setting or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I don't like not having control over my photos. I'd like to be able to view all of them in my finder.
You have far more control over your Photos with iPhoto than with the Finder. But you can simply use the Finder or any other app to manage your photos, iPhoto is not compulsory in any way. If you are going to use iPhoto then there is a conceptual leap to make, and then it begins to make sense.
That leap is this: that Jpeg is not your Photo. That .doc file is not your novel. That .mp3 is not the song. In each case, these files are containers for the data - with characteristics attuned to the nature of the data, sure - but your data is the photo, the novel, the song. Or put another way, they're the shoebox, your data is the shoes.
iPhoto is about the Photo and not the file. If you want to manage files by all means do, and best to use a file manager. iPhoto is for managing Photos. The best analogy I can come up with is the Contacts.app. (and like all analogies, it's limited but here goes.) The Contacts.app is a central store and repository for anything to do with your address book, emails, phone numbers. Somewhere on the HD is a file or files with all this data, but you never go there. You either use the Contacts.app or any of the many hooks built-in to the OS to access, edit, share and manipulate this data.
Now try the same with iPhoto: iPhoto is a central store and repository for anything to do with your photos. Somewhere on the HD is a file or files with all this data, but you never go there. You either use iPhoto or any of the many hooks built-in to the OS to access, edit, share and manipulate this data. So, iPhoto replaces the file manager for anything to do with your photos, because it's about the photos and not the files.
Coming from Windows and Linux, especially, this level of abstraction can be confusing, but that's what it is. Added to this is the level of virtualisation used in iPhoto - all edits are virtual until you export - the non-destructive editing feature can also be confusing. But that's why iPhoto can't be navigated via the Finder. Comparing it with iTunes, which has no editing, is not comparing like with like. iPhoto will always preserve your original data - the photo as shot.
To specifics:
For help accessing your photos in iPhoto see this user tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4491
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
This creates a problem for me in that I can't back up my photos manually anymore to an external hard drive.
Of course you can. Simply Export them. File -> Export. Now you can choose exactly what to export: the original, an edited version, if different qualities and different formats. But again, simply backing up a version of the photos is not really backing up your work, just the raw data. So you need to back up the Library as well.
have to rely solely on Time Machine. I don't like that.
No you don't.
Most Simple Back Up:
Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
Slightly more complex: Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically.
Example of such apps: Chronosync - but there are many others. Search on MacUpdate or the App Store
Is there a way to import your photos from the iPhone or iPad into the "Pictures" folder on my Macbook, then into a date sub folder similar to the way Windows imports photos?
Two ways:
1, With iPhoto you can run a Referenced Library. But I cannot urge you enough not to do this. iPhoto does not have the tools to manage this and you're only strong up grief for further down the road. It's unnecessary and only makes more work for exactly zero advantage.
For more on iPhoto and file management see this User Tip:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6361
2. Use some other system for managing your photos. Image Capture (in the Applications Folder) will get your images from your camera/phone/whatever and put them wherever you like. Just don't use iPhoto.
However, when saving (there's no save option, you have to close and are prompted to export) there is no option to save in the original location and rewrite the movie in iPhoto.
Again, this has got to do with non-destructive processing and that's why you're better importing movies to iMovie and processing them there and then exporting them to the finder, and only when you've finished them, importing them to iPhoto. (Or just not shooting video in portrait).

How can I get iTUNES library to display renamed files and folders (renamed with Windows Explorer)?

How can I get iTunes library to display the new names and organisation of tracks and albums (ie files and folders) that I have renamed and reorganised (using Windows Explorer) having previously imported them using iTunes?
(Even when I relocate "lost" tracks in iTunes (using the drop down menu facility to view in Windows explorer), although iTunes will then play the track, and knows where to find it, it refuses to display the track with its correct (new) name, or show it the correct (new) album. That means I have lots of things called "Untitled" and "Track 01" etc, all of which have actually been renamed, but iTunes does not seem to have the capability to recognise the changes and update its library listing. Another example - a Tchaikovsky CD with 3 major works in 13 tracks insists on displaying in iTunes as 13 tracks in one album, despite the fact that I have reorganised the tracks into 3 albums - two being Swan Lake and The Nutcracker - and renamed the individual tracks to a more useable format.)

Thanks for your replies ckuan
I agree with Tgod that your first solution does not work. It appears unpredictable whether the old or new file names are listed when you drag the folders into iTunes from Windows Explorer. The folder structure is completely missing. I reckon if you have to muck around spending days/weeks/months finding out how to fix links to a secret meta-file (obviously designed by some deep-cover microsoft worm working in the Apple!), then it's pretty obvious that almost any alternate way of doing this would be better. Bye bye iTunes!!
Incidentally, I tried several other things that (if the software was designed intuitively) should work, but give disastrous results:
1) when deleting the library listing in iTunes, it gives you two options - one is to remove the listings to the Recycler. Be aware that IF you select that option, it removes not only your library listing, but also your ACTUAL MUSIC FILES to the Recycler. Moreover, it does NOT remove the insidious secret meta-file that is what apparently keeps rewriting old names over your carefully renamed file names, and keeps totally ignoring your carefully designed folder (album) structure. OK - not a complete disaster, as I realised and went hunting through the chaos in the Recycler to recover all my files. No thanks to the genius who designed this brilliant feature!
2) after deleting the library listing in iTunes, I attempted to import just the folders that I wanted. iTunes refused to allow me to do that, and proceeded to try to import every frigging music file it could find on my whole hard drive, in apparently random fashion into the library. Whoever thought up that doozy either never ever tried to use or market test it, or has modified their mind rather too many times with artificial substances so their brain is like muesli chop suey.
3) oh why go on, it's too depressing ...

Rename File

Greetings,
Is it possible to rename a file while it is open in Photoshop? I use an action when closing/saving that saves the file in 3 different sizes/formats and it would be great if I could name the file just prior to saving.
Thanks
David

Your goung about it the hard way. Do this instead. Create a simple action or actions that process the image the way or ways you want them processed. The actions should not resize or save image they should just process the image the way you want them processed. Once you have these actions. Download and install the Image Processor Pro plug-in script into your Photoshop version CS5, CS6, CC. from Russell Browns web site. Then use menu File>Automate>Image Processor Pro. Set the Image Processor Pro dialog to process your image files and save all the output files you want with the sizes and names you want. Have the Image process include you action or actions in its process.

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