Looking to repete serial numbers in batch automation

Question

Hello,
I hope this is the correct forum to post my question to. Basically I'd like to have the save as serial numbers repete in my batch automation, so appending the files with 1-9 and then starting back at one. I thought I'd be able to accomplish this using a 1-digit serial, however if I batch process more than nine images it forces a second digit in the serial. I'm dealing with a large image bank that I need to sort, so this would be a huge time saver. Thanks!
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Answer 1

You didn't get back about your contact sheet process… Anyhows I had a spare 15 mins this morning and heres how I would look at doing this… You may be able to do this too…? A script you can run in the ESTK as is or it could be added to a menu item if you wanted… With you images loaded in active bridge window… This should sort to Nth number of collections… These are just arrays of file aliases so nothing is actually moved yet… You can trash the collections too if you dont like them… If it does what you want you can select all the files of each collection and use the output panel to create contact sheets… or drag to move/copy the files on your system…
#target Bridge
collectionsNth();
function collectionsNth() {
    var i, j, doc, count, colls, files, num;
    doc = app.document;
    count = doc.visibleThumbnailsLength;
    files = doc.visibleThumbnails;
    num = prompt( 'Please enter a number to split' , '5' );
    colls = addCollections( num );
    j = 0;
    for ( i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {
        app.addCollectionMember( colls[j], files[i] );
        j++;
        if ( j == num ) { j = 0 }; // This looks rubbish Im sure theres a neater way to do this…
function addCollections( n ) {
    var i, colls;
    colls = Array();
    for ( i = 0; i < n; i++ ) {
        colls.push( app.createCollection( 'Sort Nth ' + ( i + 1 ) ) );
    return colls;