Guild Wars 2

Heya,

at first, I didn’t mind the automatic naming (gw001 > gw002 > and so on…) but now, my guild wanted to create a gallery where guildies could upload their screenshots.
The problem is, we can’t mass-upload (like 400 screenshots) cause we get name conflicts..

Maybe, if you could do like
YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HOUR-MINUTE

Could help for future guilds that are about to do the same thing.

Or better yet: charactername-year-month-day-number.

Examples:
MeSako-2012-10-17-1
MeSako-2012-10-17-2
MeSako-2012-10-17-3

I’m going to give my file naming OCD free reign for a moment:

As a screenshot addict, I rename my screenshots based on the zone they’re taken in, so that if I want to find a given area on another character, or want to show a guildie something that’s especially cool, the file name tells me the general area where I was. The character name, as MeSako mentioned, would be a good way to prevent duplicate file names when uploading. As one final note, a three digit ID number is definitely necessary at the end for those of us who create a ton of files.

TL;DR: Add zone name and a three digit ID number. Building upon MeSako’s examples: MeSako-Blazeridge Steppes-2012-10-17-001

Or even better, give me the option to supply a custom string when I take a screenshot.

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I second this; as a fellow screenshotaholic and game modder, I take thousands of shots in every game I play.

Being able to supply a custom string affix would be very useful, but I’d settle for Vick’s $name.$region.$date format if it had to be hardcoded.

I find this ridiculous. At this moment this request should be under Very Low priority…

http://www.howtogeek.com/111859/how-to-batch-rename-files-in-windows-4-ways-to-rename-multiple-files/

FYI the current maximum for screen shots in the folder is 999. When you move them to another folder to make please GW2 restarts the counter from 001, Which means you will end up with duplicates by yourself after due time and screenshotting :S