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Date/time stamp issue when transferring vids/pics to computer. Help please.

steve0
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Date/time stamp issue when transferring vids/pics to computer. Help please.

Hi, i am having an issue when transferring my vids/pics from my Z2 to my PC.

On all my previous phones when transferring media to my PC it would be copied and labelled with a date stamp followed by a picture number- an example being 2014-01-13- 0123. This has always made organising and finding my pics/vids in there relavent folders an eay task.

The problem i am now faced with is when i transfer pics/vids from my Z2.  The pictures are stamped with DSC_0001 for example and the videos with MOV_0001. This means when on my PC i have to examine each file individually to find out its date and time of origin.

Even more of an headache is everytime i have transferred files from my Z2 and then take more pics/vids and then try to transfer them to my PC the computer will not allow transfer as the stamp on the file i am transferring from my Z2 eg - DSC_0001 is already present on the PC from a previous transfer. This means i have to rename all the PC files first.

I hope this makes sense and hopefully there is an easy fix.

I am new to Android and overall i am very happy with the operating system, being a massive improvement generally over my previous phones. Fingers crossed this is down to my lack of knowledge and just involves a settings change somewhere.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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steve0
Visitor

Anyone please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even if the pc transfer stamps cant be altered from DSC_ or MOV_ on the Z2 can someone please confirm this to be the case.

Thanks.

toarni
Visitor

Hi.

The case you described is right. But it´s not a bug.

Why don´t you organise your pics/vids on your desktop with picasa for example. There you have many tools, also to rename your files, so that the filename contains the creation date.

Or you use a cloud solution like dropbox, google+ or amazon clouddrive to sync pics/vids from your phone automatically.

But never use the built-in sony playmemories. It´s really slow, pics are down-scaled to 1280x720 and vids are not synced. It´s the worst cloud-service for pics I´ve seen.

Best

arni