How to screw up renumbering in Bridge CC
Yesterday, I just learned I could stack the hundreds of jpegs created accidentally when in video mode on the Nikon Z7, when shutter is pressed instead of the record button. I thought that was pretty neat I could play at various speeds. But then today I did my renumbering according to my system, using Bridge rename. I start off with the last number in my database for a camera, eg 3026352, and then renumber. But then I realized the stacked ones didn't so number. I opened and they had numbers with no relation to the first in the stack. In the whole day folder, they had numbers starting with 0, up to over 500. So I opened all the stacks and now sorting by number would be wrong if I wanted to keep the order, so I sorted by date. I thought that went well and thought it didn't matter if I did all the rest of the folders by date instead of filename. But then, after I did 10 more day folders, and started to move all to a single folder before going onto the other stages of metadata extraction and such, I realized now all the movie files were out of order and in the first folder, all at the end, with the highest numbers. This is because, I FORGOT that Bridge almost never gives the right date or time to movie folders. In this case, they were given the date of 11/25, instead of 11/24. In the next same date but hours different from the shots adjacent. Other times it will be years ago, like 2017 for ones taken in 2020. So now there is no way to keep the true desired order, because when an Adobe tech recently reinstalled CC Bridge, I didn't notice that 'preserve previous filename was unchecked, when I tried to restore other preferences.
