Help Coding Stamp Scans, Please!

Thought I had an overprint from Gibraltar. Evidently not. You are close alphabetically but not geographically. The country is from the Americas.

Thanks for the image burst link peterethio.
Is Honduras the missing country?
Cheers

Conker.

Great advice from Cynical,
you would do well to secure a FREE copy of ACDSee 3.1
it really is a magic Windows explorer style
viewing pane, and image management system.

Irfanview is another SCF member employ, but I am not
conversant with that one.

You have chosen undescores which is fine, but soon as you deviate
from what I do, I cannot assist.
You have to follow your own discoveries.

I do not like collective subsets, so I employ the parentheses
to limit the search year
"(1989" will always just bring up a date subset

Example with using 5c
the subset will include 5c 25c 35c 45c etc ad nauseum,
using the leading zero prevents that.


I designed my naming convention with rose coloured glasses on
I imagined if I could get 20-30 people
to all use the same naming convention, we could exchange databases
and images.

I imagined say, fred bloggs exchanging with me
200 Austrian images, and I would in return send him 200 images
of Tunisia stamps, they would slot right in
and if they used Scott it was just a matter of chaning the leading code.

Based on that, it quickly builds a great image database
for everyone.

That didn't work, we are all individuals, and all
take towards using our own particular quirky way of
keeping records.
Democracy at work

Well done Conker!

Rod, I would still be interested in which operating system you have; I think this explains some of the differences. I can search with 5c (not05c) and only get the 5c results; no 15c, 25c etc. which are certainly there.
Further, in my Vista OS, I can use Boolean searches. For example "5c AND 1966" will give me all my 5c stamps from 1966.
I am not saying this is better; you have been investigating this far longer than me. Are you still open to image trading for those souls who follow your file description? If so, I will study your solution more closely and maybe duplicate. I am only around 300 images into this fun and games so far so you may not be interested.
The other intriguing thought in this is that these file descriptions almost make us independent of which catalog we use. As you say, only one small part of the file name needs to be changed if switching catalog allegiance.

Awaiting with bated breath for the first emergence of the world's first Cloud Stamp Catalogue.

Does anyone know where you can get a free copy of ACDSee 3.1? I looked for it to give it a try but couldn't find a free copy, only trial copies.

Thanks Pete,
Yes XP Conker, I generally have reluctance to change.

Try this site
http://www.oldversion.com/ACDSee.html
Only 5.68Mb

It will take you a few days possibly to kick tyres and
feel comfortable with this lass,
but she delivers when you coax her.
Try and arrive at the double pane windows explorer format

When you get conversant, I'll show you some tricks
she has in her purse.

On the other hand, I may learn something from you,
the boolean thingo, looks very helpful
Hopefully it may be an OS theing.

The reason I have stuck with XP, I am a fan of older
less bloated software which (I believe) won't work
in a 64 bit environment.
I just adore my Old banger MSWorks Suite (4.5a) and ACDSee

Pete,
it looks like ACDSee has been removed from the Free list
I cannot find it myself.
I am not sure where mine originated, possibly
as a freebie on a Magazine CDRom
It was once free, I recall pointing others to
the site some years ago.

The search facility in XP was pretty basic and many file types are not indexed but if it works for you at least it is fast and has little system impact.
The Vista search on the other hand renders the system unusable as it is consumes vast system resources during indexing.
Windows 7 had significant improvements made in the search indexing system and is pretty good on the whole.

There a very few applications that will not run in a 64bit OS using compatibility mode. If this fails then there is still the option to run a 'virtual machine' version of XP that is free on certain versions of Win7.

This all maybe a bit much for most people though

I've got three collections which I'm looking at scanning:

1. A collection of overprints which are already scanned,

2. A collection of African countries which is in the "to be thought about more" pile, particularly in the light of the good information I've received from this topic.

3. A collection of world sets which take my fancy. Started scanning this a couple of days ago but ran into some issues which needed sorting before the scans progressed too far. These issues are discussed below.

a. Some of the stamps appeared in two collections, for example, Austrian overprints appeared in both the Austrian section and the overprints collection. These have since been combined.

b. I started scanning some of the pages using a similar naming convention to the overprints, this time three letters and two digits. I soon realised that this wouldn't work since some of the collections are in chronological order. So I'm part way though changing the names to the date of the earliest set on the page. I'll probably need to change all the pages to this convention.

Peter: regarding ACDSee my son tells me that it might be on a site called oldapps.com or something like that.

Some of the earlier versions on this site seem to be free
http://www.oldversion.com/ACDSee.html