Sequential numbering of imported scanned images in Aperture 2.1.4?

I have a large number of old photographs which I want to import into Aperture 2.1.4. via a scanner, (Lexmark P4350) and I would like them to be sequentially numbered preferably into the Version Name field but any field would do. At the moment they are kind of numbered as "Scan 01" "Scan 02" etc., but this only applies to each session I do—going back to "Scan 01" for the next session. Is there any way that this can be achieved so that all the imported images are sequentially numbered? I did wonder whether or not an Automator script would do it but I have not worked out how to use Automator! I am using Image Capture to scan and import into Aperture. Any help would be great. Thanks

This should be extremely easy to do with a custom name template after import into Aperture - you can choose to rename just the version or the file names as well. There are many different templates you can set up and each one containing a sequence will retain it's own count and pick up where it left off.
This post is for export but it works the same way for version and file-renaming, you can do it at the time of import or after using the metadata batch change function.
[http://photo.rwboyer.com/2008/10/28/aperture-2-quick-tip-naming-exported-images >
RB

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