Rename Photos

I am running Vista Home Premium. I am trying to rename a group of .jpg
photos. I expected it to work like XP. I drag the photos into the order that
I want them, highlight all of the photos, right click on the first one and
rename it Photo (1).jpg

It seems to work differently every time I do it. I highlighted 3 photos and
rename them to be: pp (7).jpg.
I expected pp(7).jpg. pp (8).jpg, pp (9).jpg. What I got was pp(7), pp(2),
pp(3)

I have no idea what is going on.

What am I doing wrong?
--
C and A Bredt

"C and A Bredt" <abredt_at-delete-> wrote in message
news:...
>I am running Vista Home Premium. I am trying to rename a group of .jpg
>photos. I expected it to work like XP. I drag the photos into the order
>that I want them, highlight all of the photos, right click on the first one
>and rename it Photo (1).jpg
>
> It seems to work differently every time I do it. I highlighted 3 photos
> and rename them to be: pp (7).jpg.
> I expected pp(7).jpg. pp (8).jpg, pp (9).jpg. What I got was pp(7),
> pp(2), pp(3)
>
> I have no idea what is going on.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
> --
> C and A Bredt

OOPS - forgot to mention that I am doing it in Windows Explorer. I prefer
not to use tags as I have over 30Gigs of photos from my prior XP system.
--
C and A Bredt

From a little experiment here, it looks like it only works if you rename to
pp.jpg or pp (1).jpg ie beginning at 1. Otherwise it appears to 'fill in the
gaps'

--
Jon


"C and A Bredt" <abredt_at-delete-> wrote in message
news:...
> "C and A Bredt" <abredt_at-delete-> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I am running Vista Home Premium. I am trying to rename a group of .jpg
>>photos. I expected it to work like XP. I drag the photos into the order
>>that I want them, highlight all of the photos, right click on the first
>>one and rename it Photo (1).jpg
>>
>> It seems to work differently every time I do it. I highlighted 3 photos
>> and rename them to be: pp (7).jpg.
>> I expected pp(7).jpg. pp (8).jpg, pp (9).jpg. What I got was pp(7),
>> pp(2), pp(3)
>>
>> I have no idea what is going on.
>>
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> --
>> C and A Bredt
>
> OOPS - forgot to mention that I am doing it in Windows Explorer. I prefer
> not to use tags as I have over 30Gigs of photos from my prior XP system.
> --
> C and A Bredt
>