Heyo. I'm a new Bridge user and a pic junkie hoping to make some rapid progress organizing my vast collection.
It's going to be slower going on my phone pics, but I think I can make some rapid progress on pics from friends and family from FB, which have file names incorporating their user names (looking something like AName_A134103314etc . . .). I would like to group these pics by the person that took the pic and subdivide each person's picks by *approximate* year (doesn't need to be perfect). Further, I want to change the file name to sequential numbers within each year.
So here's what I'm doing so far. I've gathered all my pics into one folder: ALLPICS. Then I sort in Explorer to arrange by alpha filename. Then in Bridge, I open ALLPICS. I scroll to the files with the usernames. Highlight AName_A's pics for a given year (say 2016). Right click>Batch Rename>Move to other folder (ALLPICS/ANameA/2016); New filename, sequence number, 01, two digits>Rename. Then I repeat for the 2017 pics, then 2018. Then I move on to AName_B's pics. Etc.
While all this clicking in Bridge has been quicker than doing everything in Explorer, it seems like I should be able to accomplish the desired end faster than I currently know how to do. Would any of you have some good suggestions? Even if it's "read X and Y" or "look at tutorial Z on youtube", that's fine. If subdividing by year will greatly slow down a solution, I could just forget about that in Bridge and divide them up in Explorer later. If what I really need is to write some sort of script, where in the world do I start?
Thank you for your time, folks.
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