How do I change the default photo numbering?

The iPhone organizes the photos in a separate folder for each day as seen when I upload the photos to my laptop. In each daily folder, the photo numbering restarts at 001.


After I've uploaded the photos to my laptop, I want to sort photos of similar subjects into a new folder for that subject. For example, all photos of my big toe that I take on different days I want to move into a new folder on my laptop called "My Big Toe." But when I try to move them, the name of the first photo of one day is the same as the first photo of another day so there is a file name conflict and I end up having to live with a bunch of toe photos "001(1)" and "001(2)" and so on.


Is there not a way to set my iPhone to continue sequential numbering of photos regardless of what day it was taken? So a big toe photo taken today (2-12-13) would be 001 and tomorrow's big toe photo would be 002. Say I took another 3 photos of a tree (003, 004, 005), then a day or two later I took another big toe photo, which would be 006. That way I would never have a renaming conflict.


There's GOT to be a way to change the photo naming sequence settings on an iPhone, is there not?! Or an App for that, perhaps?

iPhone 4S, iOS 6.1.1

Posted on Feb 12, 2013 12:06 PM

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Posted on Feb 12, 2013 12:09 PM

It doesn't have to do with how the iPhone handles the photos but how you have the computer set up for importing the pictures. I'm not familiar with Mac computers and their photo software, but you need to go into the settings section of the Windows importing software and set it for numbering in the manner that you want, so it continues numbering.

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Feb 12, 2013 12:09 PM in response to Timulator

It doesn't have to do with how the iPhone handles the photos but how you have the computer set up for importing the pictures. I'm not familiar with Mac computers and their photo software, but you need to go into the settings section of the Windows importing software and set it for numbering in the manner that you want, so it continues numbering.

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