>Bruno,
>
>It seems that you are over-thinking this. What is your
>ultimate goal with the file naming?
>
>If your goal is unique names by the camera so that there are
>no naming collisions on your hard drive, you cannot depend on
>the camera doing this for you. In this case, you are best
>using a third-party downloader that will rename the files as
>you desire as they are transfered off the card, then reset the
>counter back to 1 and reformat the card.

Hi Joseph and thanks for your answer. This is exactly my goal, of course, and I'll do just as you're advising me to.

I was just trying to find a neat trick to resume my numbering so that it would be consistent, and reading the documentation, I thought it was possible, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, I just (kinda) hate it when I don't understand something. The little child in me, I suppose, haha.


>As an example, I use Downloader Pro by BreezeSys.com. Using
>the exif data, I have it rename the files from dsc_nnnn.xxx to
>yyyymmdd_nnnn.xxx based on the date of capture.

As I'm a Linux guy, I'll use a little utility called "exiv2" (available on Windows as well by the way) to rename all my files.

Thanks again, have a good day, all of you !

Bruno