Filename trouble.

I just started work for a photographer. He has thousands and thousands of pictures. He owns a tropical plant nursery and he takes pictures of plants from all over the place. Now he wants to organize the photos to eventually post them onto a website. One problem i am having is with the filenames (DSC_4639.jpg). He has gone through the filenames so many times some of the photos have the same name. I suggested we start changing the file names in lightroom. Such as, all the banana trees would be changed to Banana_trees1.jpg. etc. Is this the right way to go about it? Also most of the photos need to stay in the correct sequence because he takes a picture of the scientific name of the plants and then the plant. I do not have the knowledge of plants that he does so i need the names to stay in order to idenity the plants. Will this change the order? Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated. Working with SO many photos of plants is really confusing it in self. 0

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Lee Jay wrote:
hillrg wrote:
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Lee Jay wrote:
Only if they are potentially for the same customer. Why is having duplicate metadata like date and filename both with the same information good?
Well, if you are going to automate file naming you have to use metadata...
No you don't. You could just use a sequence number if all you want to do is prevent duplicates.
If the filenaming can be automated, then it doesn't add value to what's already there. That's why naming files and folders by date never made any sense to me, and that's why I've never done it. My folder names add value by containing useful information and my filenames are only named in such a way as to avoid duplicates in the same event/folder.
That's fine Lee Jay. I wasn't trying to convert you, just passing on how most people deal with the issue to the original poster.

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 catch(IOException e) {}
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 try{fin2.close();}
 catch(IOException e){
 System.out.println(filename+" close failed");
 for(int k=0; k<wordcount; k++){
 System.out.println(wrd[k]);
 public void hist() {
 //prints out all the tokens
 words = new String[wordcount];
 count = new int[wordcount];
 //boolean test = false;
 for(int m=0; m<wordcount; m++){
 if(words.equals(wrd[m])){
 System.out.print("match");
 else{
 words[m] = wrd[m];
 count[m] = 1;
 public void show() {
 //shows all the tokens
 for(int j=0; j<wordcount; j++){
 System.out.print(words[j]);
 System.out.print(count[j]);
 public void save() {
 //Write the contents of the entire current histogram to a text file
 PrintWriter out = null;
 try { out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("outfile.txt"));}
 catch(IOException e) {}
 for (int i= 0; i<wordcount; i++) {
 out.println(words);
out.println(count[i]);
out.close();
public void help() {
System.out.println(" This help will tell you what each command will do.");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" open - this command will open a text file that must be in the same directory ");
System.out.println(" as the program and scan through it counting how many words it has, ");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" hist - after you use the open command to open the text file the hist command will ");
System.out.println(" make a tally sheet counting how many times each word has been used. ");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" show - after you have opened the file with the open command and created a histogram ");
System.out.println(" with the hist command the show command will show a portion of or the entire h histogram. ");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" (show) just by itself will show the entire histogram. ");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" (show abc) will show the histogram count for the text abc if it exists. ");
System.out.println(" If the text is not found it will display text not found. ");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" (show pr*) will show the histogram count for all text items that begin with ");
System.out.println(" the letters pr, using * as a wild card character. ");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" save - after you have opened the file with the open command, and created the histogram ");
System.out.println(" with the hist command the save command will save the contents of the entire current histogram. ");
System.out.println(" to a text file that you choose the name of. If the file already exists the user will be prompted ");
System.out.println(" for confirmation on if they want to pick another name or overwrite the file.");
System.out.println("");
System.out.println(" quit - will quit the program. " );

Couple of points to begin with:
1. Class names should begin with an upper case letter
2. Class names should be descriptive
3. You shouldn't call your class main (this kind of follows from the first two points).
4. Always use {} around blocks of code, it will make your life, and those of the people who have to eventually maintain your code a lot easier.
5. Never ignore exceptions, i.e. don't use an empty block to catch exceptions.
6. Avoid assiging a local variable to null, especially if the only reason you are doing it is to "fix" a compilation error.
7. Your method names should reflect everything that the method does, this should encourage you to break the application logic down into the smallest tasks possible (a general rule is that each method should do one task, and do it well). In the example below, I ignore this advice in the loadFile() method, but it's left as an exercise to you to fix this.
8. You should use descriptive variable names (fin may make sense now, but will it in 6 months time?), and use camel case where the name uses multiple words, e.g. wordcount should be wordCount
On the problem at hand, I'll post a cut down example of what you want, and you can look at the javadocs, and find out how it works.
This code uses the auto-boxing feature of 1.5 (even though I don't like it, again it's left as an exercise for you to remove the auto-boxing ;) ) and some generics (you should be able to work out how to use this code in 1.4).
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
public class Histogram {
 /** Map to box the words. */
 private Map<String, Integer> wordMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
 * Main method.
 * @param args
 * Array of command line arguments
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 Histogram h = new Histogram();
 h.menu();
 * Display the menu, and enter program loop.
 public void menu() {
 System.out.println("Welcome to Histogram 1.0");
 BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
 while (true) {
 System.out.println("Please enter one of the following commands: open, hist, show, save, help, or quit");
 String s = null;
 try {
 s = in.readLine();
 } catch (IOException e) {
 System.out.println("Unable to interpret the input.");
 continue;
 if (s.equals("open")) {
 loadFile();
 } else if (s.equals("quit")) {
 System.exit(0);
 * Ask the user for a file name and load it
 public void loadFile() {
 System.out.println("Enter Name Of File: ");
 BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
 String filename = null;
 try {
 filename = reader.readLine();
 reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filename));
 loadWords(reader);
 reader.close();
 } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
 System.out.println("Can't open file " + filename + " for reading, please try again.");
 return;
 } catch (IOException e) {
 System.out.println(filename + " close failed");
 displayHistogram();
 * Load the words from the file into the map.
 * @param reader
 private void loadWords(BufferedReader reader) {
 int wordCount = 0;
 try {
 String line = reader.readLine();
 while (line != null) {
 StringTokenizer tk = new StringTokenizer(line);
 wordCount += tk.countTokens();
 while (tk.hasMoreTokens()) {
 String next = tk.nextToken();
 if (wordMap.containsKey(next)) {
 wordMap.put(next, (wordMap.get(next).intValue() + 1));
 } else {
 wordMap.put(next, 1);
 System.out.println("line: " + line + " word count = " + wordCount);
 line = reader.readLine();
 } catch (IOException e) {
 System.out.println("Unable to read next line");
 * Display the words and their count.
 private void displayHistogram() {
 System.out.println("Map of words: " + wordMap);
}

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