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I am new to lightroom 3 and i'm in the process of building a catalog of all my photos . To start of on the right foot i thought i'd implement a numbering system with a unique number starting with #00001 followed by date.    I have tried various ways to renumber the pictures in my catalog using the library menu 'rename' etc..    I select a group of files from a folder and then rename using the 'custom feature' from the 'library'.    No matter which way i edit the custom feature, the numbering begins with  #000001 +(date behind) for each folder that i'm renaming from.  I don't want different pictures beginning with #00001 in each folder.   I want all pictures to have unique numbers starting with #000001 ever onwards.      Would be grateful if someone knows the trick!

If you and a sequence number that will start from 1 and will increment itself automatically spanning multiple import sessions, you need the following file name template:
<image#>_<date(date_format)>
With this template if you import, say, 100 images in the first batch, they will be numbered from 1 to 100. The next day imports will contine from 101 upwards.
Note1: This variable is limited to 5 characters, so it will only go from 00001 to 99999. You cannot get 0000001 (six numbers).
Note2: This image# is bugged in LR 3.0, so you'll have to wait for LR 3.1 to get corrected or use LR 2.7 meanwhile.
If you want to simply apply a new file name scheme to all files in your catalog, not caring about future imports, use the following template:
<sequence#>_<date(date_format)>
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