- How many characters?

Hi.
In previous versions of AR I had used a preset where I generated a name for photos. Here is the preset.

<Img Year>_<Img Month>_<Img Day>_<Img Hour>_<Img Min>_<Img Sec>_<Img Subsec>_<Img CameraModel>

It seems that in the newer versions, I have to make some changes. I have already identified that I have to change <Img CameraModel> to <Model>

It seems I also have to change <Img Subsec>. It used to be that it would return a uniform 2 characters for each subsce. Now it sometimes returns 2 and sometimes 3.

2025_02_18_17_01_55_175_SM-A336B
2025_02_28_14_52_46_82_SM-S908B

This is very frustrating to my precisision obsessed mind that needs them all to look the same in my file explorer (not to mention being the same as the thousands I've already done over the years :-()

Is there a way to specify 2 characters instead of AR deciding for itself?

Thanks.

Reply to #1:

Hi Bryonie,

I can't find any images with subsec values on my computer, but have you tried <Img subsec:00> ( or <Img subsec:xx>)? It seems to pad shorter numbers with 0 (the "00" values I get with <img subsec> are changed to "0000" if I use <Img subsec:0000>; it might work the other way). I don't think <Img subsec:xx> works, but it might be worth a try if the <Img subsec:00> value doesn't do it for you.

Of course you could use a regular expression to chop off one digit on the 3-digit ones, but I wouldn't even know what to do. I assume the last one is the least significant, but I can't wrap my head around how it wouldn't be necessary. Are the values in one-thousandths of a second? If it were one-hundredths you'd never see a "185", and if it were one-sixtieths it would never be three digits?? Hopefully someone more camera-wise can fill in the gaps. I'd like to know myself.

Just a thought... good luck!

Best,
DF