What happens after you reach max screenshots? - Guild Wars Forums

TsunamiZ · Mar 02, 2010, 05:06 PM // 17:06

What happens after you reach max screenshots in the screenshots folder? Do previous numbered ones get overwritten with new ones?

Yasmine · Mar 02, 2010, 05:14 PM // 17:14

No, they don't get overwritten. It just won't let you take a new screenshot, telling you you have maxed the allowed number in the screen folder.

TsunamiZ · Mar 02, 2010, 06:15 PM // 18:15

which is the real answer?

Shadow Feathers · Mar 02, 2010, 06:20 PM // 18:20

I'm wondering that as well and what exactly is the max number ? I have several hundred in one folder already.

Kanna Banrai · Mar 02, 2010, 06:23 PM // 18:23

What Yasmine said, is the correct answer. As for the exact number, I believe it is 999.

Yasmine · Mar 02, 2010, 06:24 PM // 18:24

The max is 999.
I renamed my old screen folder to "Screens" (renamed the current one too ofc) and tried to get a screenshot, then rerenamed the folders and took this screen:

(hope I'm making sense lol)

Malla13 · Mar 02, 2010, 06:37 PM // 18:37

Yasmine's right, after 999 you can't take anymore until you empty the folder.

I just move them out of the screenshot folder into a different one to save them. Then the very next one you take will be picture 001 all over again.
I have a bit of a screenie problem, though. I think I've restarted my picture folder about 10 times now in the last year. ^-^;

dr_ishmael · Mar 03, 2010, 12:28 AM // 00:28

All you have to do is rename the current "...\Guild Wars\Screens" folder, to "Screens1" for example. You can even do this while GW is running. The next time you take a screenshot, it will automatically create a new "Screens" folder and restart numbering from gw001.jpg.

Luminarus · Mar 03, 2010, 12:48 AM // 00:48

1) Delete the crap ones... problem solved.
2) Rename folder... problem solved

Hollygen · Mar 03, 2010, 11:11 AM // 11:11

Just to be aware, if you have a picture named 'gw999' in your screens folder, and have deleted earlier pics, then GW will fill in the gaps until you have 999 pics in the folder

Bob Slydell · Mar 04, 2010, 02:14 AM // 02:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luminarus

1) Delete the crap ones... problem solved.
2) Rename folder... problem solved

I've done this before, but I believe it causes severe fragmentation. Not fragmentation as in, the hard drive's files.. just in your screens folder.

When I was searching though my shots I noticed the file names matched up in a perfect row but a lot of newer ones were mixed in with the older ones, to which I had to sort by 'date modified' to see the newest ones.

What I mean I guess is.. you have this (deleted GW 122 and then took another shot):

GW121-1/1/2010
GW122-3/3/2010
GW123-1/1/2010
GW124-1/2/2010

Mar 02, 2010, 05:06 PM // 17:06	#1
TsunamiZ Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Oct 2005	What happens after you reach max screenshots? What happens after you reach max screenshots in the screenshots folder? Do previous numbered ones get overwritten with new ones?

Mar 02, 2010, 06:24 PM // 18:24	#6
Yasmine Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Nov 2007 Guild: The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]	The max is 999. I renamed my old screen folder to "Screens" (renamed the current one too ofc) and tried to get a screenshot, then rerenamed the folders and took this screen: (hope I'm making sense lol) Last edited by Yasmine; Mar 02, 2010 at 06:26 PM // 18:26..

Mar 02, 2010, 05:14 PM // 17:14	#2
Yasmine Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Nov 2007 Guild: The Lost Souls Of Jugdement [KJCD]	No, they don't get overwritten. It just won't let you take a new screenshot, telling you you have maxed the allowed number in the screen folder.

Mar 02, 2010, 06:15 PM // 18:15	#3
TsunamiZ Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Oct 2005	which is the real answer?

Mar 02, 2010, 06:20 PM // 18:20	#4
Shadow Feathers Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Feb 2010	I'm wondering that as well and what exactly is the max number ? I have several hundred in one folder already.

Mar 02, 2010, 06:23 PM // 18:23	#5
Kanna Banrai Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Inman, South Carolina (-5 GMT) Guild: Gameamp Guides Profession: Mo/	What Yasmine said, is the correct answer. As for the exact number, I believe it is 999.

Mar 02, 2010, 06:37 PM // 18:37	#7
Malla13 Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Feb 2009 Guild: Angeldustrial Bonsai Muffins [FFS] Profession: N/Me	Yasmine's right, after 999 you can't take anymore until you empty the folder. I just move them out of the screenshot folder into a different one to save them. Then the very next one you take will be picture 001 all over again. I have a bit of a screenie problem, though. I think I've restarted my picture folder about 10 times now in the last year. ^-^;

Mar 03, 2010, 12:28 AM // 00:28	#8
dr_ishmael Academy Page Join Date: Apr 2005	All you have to do is rename the current "...\Guild Wars\Screens" folder, to "Screens1" for example. You can even do this while GW is running. The next time you take a screenshot, it will automatically create a new "Screens" folder and restart numbering from gw001.jpg.

Mar 03, 2010, 12:48 AM // 00:48	#9
Luminarus Furnace Stoker Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sydney, Australia Guild: Haze of Light [pure] Profession: R/	1) Delete the crap ones... problem solved. 2) Rename folder... problem solved

Mar 03, 2010, 11:11 AM // 11:11	#10
Hollygen Core Guru Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Guild: Blinkie Ponie Armie [bpa] Profession: R/	Just to be aware, if you have a picture named 'gw999' in your screens folder, and have deleted earlier pics, then GW will fill in the gaps until you have 999 pics in the folder