It has been a long time since I did any sort of route for MF. A shop here and there has been it over the past couple years. This weekend I took a small route of gas stations and was having something weird happen when I uploaded the photos.
When I do a route of gas stations they are generally rural, as in I wouldn't bother trying to use an app. I use a digital camera, take lots of extras, and sort it out when I get home. My system has been pretty consistent for years: I make a copy of the files from the camera disc. Then I make a set of folders in another finder window. With two finder windows open, I review, rename, and move photos from the copy file to its new location in the shop folder. That way no photos get used twice, and the photos have names like "Canopy 1," or "Alt Fuel Pump" so it is easy to upload in its time. I only rename and move the photos I plan to keep. I wipe the disc clean for the next time, and once all shops are approved and paid I delete the master duplicate of the disc and leave only the chosen files in their shop location folders on my hard drive.
This weekend, when uploading shops, I would pick, say "Canopy 1" from a location file folder for a given shop, and notice from the thumbnail that a similarly named photo from another, previously entered shop (in a different folder in my file system) was in its place. Anyone have this happen? Over and over, as I was entering data, I would select one photo from my file and then a different one would replace it in the report. The only thing that would stop it is if I changed the name of the photos to be unique for the shop, not just in unique folders. What a PITA!
Of a short route of seven shops, only one photo got past me and the good folks at the Help Desk were able to delete the duplicate. Any ideas what this is?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/12/2021 04:47PM by heartlandcanuck.