OK. At least you now have all of them.
Sorry for the delay in responding.
So now they are not in the right order.
By "not in the right order" what do you mean? The order that you scanned
them in?
So let us do some work to understand how XP sorts or lists files.
1. Open the folder
2. The photos are now displayed in Thumbnail view.
3. Click on the Views icon and then change Thumbnails to Details.
4. Now you have a list of file names. They are sorted (or listed) by
numerical/alphabetical order.
So you would see something like this:
1_Filename.jpg
Filename.jpg
My filename.jpg
1_Filename is listed first because numerical takes priority over
alphabetical. Then you have Filename and then My filename listed in
alphabetical order.
So I am not sure how you named your files,as you scanned them, but you
cannot expect them to be in the order you scanned them unless you use a
numerical system to order them.
You can use something like
1_Uncle Joe
2_Aunt Millie
3_Brother John
and they will then be listed in this order in your folder.
However if you do not use a number in front they will be listed:
Aunt Millie
Brother John
Uncle Joe
regardless of the order you scanned the pictures for the simple reason that
files are sorted (or listed) in numerical/alphabetical order and not in the
order they are scanned, or your scanner may have the option of naming all
files automatically and incrementing .001 etc. such as
image.001
image.002
etc. but here it will always be "image" as the starting file name and not
Uncle Joe etc.
If you want to control how files are listed in a folder, you can learn how
XP sorts files and how you can batch rename. Look at this site:
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-OrganizePictures.html
and with a little bit of work you will understand how to name photo files
and place them in the order you want in a folder.
Now, why did you have this problem with your folder? Difficult to say but
some corruption of the thumbs.db file probably occurred.
I did not want you to correct it as given below, just in case I would be
wrong and your photos would be lost. But now that you have your photos in a
new folder, try to repair the original folder.
1. Open your original folder
2. Change the Views from Thumbnails to Details.
3. Look at the list of files listed in the folder
4. A file, thumbs.db, should be listed there. Do you see it? If not, click
on Tools on the top bar, then on Folder Options and then on the View Tab and
scroll down and click on Show hidden files and folders.
After you do this, close the folder and open it again and you should now see
this thumbs.db file listed in the folder. Delete this file. When you delete
it you will get a message that this is a system file etc. etc. Just say Yes
to delete.
Close the folder and open it, the thumbs.db file will be automatically made
again and listed in the folder. Most probably your files will be listed just
like in the new folder you made and copied your files into.
Let us know if this did the trick or not. The idea is simply to have a new
thumbs.db file to replace a possibly corrupted one since XP automatically
generates this file, if not there, when opening a photo file folder.
