Need help moving pictures to a flash drive with the same name....

i can't figure this out. i have several hundred pictures that i want on a flash drive for my digital frame. apparently some of them have the same name assigned from the camera ex: dsc01403, etc. sitting down and re-naming them is not an option for that many. when i used windows and ran into this issue, it would just create a different file name. so for example, i would have dsc01403 and it would create the second one as dsc01403 (2). i can't figure out how to get the mac to do that. the only options i get are "don't replace, stop, replace". i tried the 'don't replace' option thinking that would do it, but it doesn't.
so first: did that make sense?
second: anyone know how to work around this?
thanks!!

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