Naming Image Files - Olympus CAMEDIA E-20N Reference Manual

Naming Image Files

When you take a picture, the camera assigns it a unique file name and saves it in a folder.
The folder and file name can later be used for file handling on a computer. File names are
assigned as shown in the illustration below.
All folders
DCIM
100 OLYMP
P2030001.jpg
P2030002.jpg
P2030003.jpg
P2030004.jpg
You can select RESET or AUTO to determine how numbering is restarted every time you
change a memory card. When you purchase the camera, the AUTO method is already
selected for you.
With RESET selected, a new image is automatically assigned the next available number.
If there are no files on the card, the image is assigned 0001 as the file number.
With AUTO selected, the camera remembers the number of the last picture taken,
increments the number by 1, and assigns this number to the next picture taken on the
next memory card. Therefore, no matter how many times you change memory cards, the
file names cannot be duplicated. On the card where you try to store the image, if there is
an image file with a number higher than the last image stored on the card, then the
camera uses the highest number to continue numbering, assigns the number to the new
image and stores it with that number.
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Folder name
000 OLYMP
Folder number (100 - 999)
File name
Pmdd0000.jpg
Day (01 - 31)
Month (10, 11, 12 are
numbered A, B, C)
File number (0001 - 9999)
After taking 9999 pictures, the counter is reset
to 0001 for the next picture, the folder number
increments by 1 to name and create a new
folder where the next image (file) is stored.