Batch Scan File Name gets longer & longer with New Index No.

[serendipity733]

Hi,

Since I upgraded to Silverfast 8.5.0r2, the batch scan index numbering function operates in a different manner. Has anyone else observed this yet?

The way it now works, is that if I set the "Name" field to, say, Test and the "Start Index at" field to 001, then the first scanned picture's filename is "Test001.jpg". That's good!!

But on the second picture I scan, the "Name" field has automatically changed to Test001, and the "Start Index at" field now says 002, and the picture's filename comes out as "Test001002.jpg". Ah! This is different to before!

.... and the next picture's filename comes out as "Test001002003.jpg", and the next filename comes out as "Test001002003004.jpg" and so on and so on.

Now, I have reported this to the excellent support team, who tell me this change of behaviour was intentional, and they are now evaluating this behaviour with a possible view to changing it back again.

So, I think it would be useful for other people who make use of the Batch Scan Automatic Indexing facility to speak up and say if they prefer the new behaviour, whereby the new index number gets added to the entire previous filename and previous index number, or whether they prefer the previous index number removed and replaced with the new index each time. I know which I prefer!

I remain not quite convinced that this particular change in operation was intended - but we'll have to see if a new release (or a new build) puts it back to the way it was.......

Regards

Chris

[LSI_Ketelhohn]

Dear Chris,

this is an issue due to a change that is supposed to prevent dates and index numbers to be deleted from a file name.
We will correct this behavior in an upcoming update.

Kind regards,
Arne Ketelhohn.

[wideguy]

I am experiencing the same thing in Ai Studio 8.5.0r3

[Photoyak]

This is a uge problem for me too. It slows my scan time down significantly! When will it be corrected?

[Murdoc]

I updated my SE to versioan 8.5.0r5 but problem described above is still there. also the time between hitting the "batch scan" button and popping up the window "save as" is really extremely long (about 20 sec) - this is really annoying. earlier version was kinda slow, but not that much! and indexing was working just fine this is step back

[tomabowen]

Same problem. Please let us know when it's fixed. super annoying

[Alverton]

I am getting this huge delay when selecting batch scanning mode in HDR too. When is it going to get fixed?