First off ... Great program! I love it, love it, love it! ... but. Here's what I'm up against. My wife and I shoot weddings. We rename all the images by time and then merge them together so the bride and groom can see a chronological story of the day. To do this, I sync up the day and time on the cameras exactly to the second just before the wedding.
When I get home, I immediately copy all the images to the computer and leave the originals on the SD card. When I open the jpg and raw files on the computer in the renamer utility, the created date seems to be the date I copied the images to the computer and not the date the pictures were taken. The last modified date "seems" to be the original time and date the picture was taken. It is really close to right, but not quite. However, I go with this date sort and do my renaming. Then I import them into Lightroom and Lightroom seems to organize the images by the exact date and time the images were taken because they are in order exactly as they should be for the images out of both cameras. It probably is using the EXIF data I would guess? However according to the names of the files as I'm viewing them sequentially in Lightroom, the names are not in order. For instance I have pictures of the bridesmaids and bride going down the isle. In Lightroom, they are perfectly in order. But the names are out of sequence which indicates the the "date modified" in the renamer utility was out of whack. As an example, I have a picture I took from the front of the church and one my wife took from the back. The bride is at the same place in her walk. The time in Lightroom is exactly the same for each of the files in Lightroom's metadata. However in naming the files apart numerically by 5 (to leave room for this problem with renaming), the one file is named Stephanie-Sam-2580 and the other is named Stephanie-Sam-2505. This causes Windows to separate the images by 15 pictures in Windows Explorer when we count by fives. This makes it so I have to rename files afterwards at the end of the process. Do you have any idea what I'm doing wrong or what I can do to fix it? I have 1800 images to sort through. I started with the File Renamer Basic and downloaded and installed Bulk Rename Utility in hopes it would fix the problem, but it didn't. This is a great program and I'd pay for it if there was a charge, but it would be wonderful to be able to find a fix for this.