Scanner and camera wizard - display order

[Mark]

What is the logic used for the display order on images when the wizard
appears. With my sony it shows the images in the right order (oldest
first) but my new olympus.

For example, it's showing in this order

PC040159.JPG
PC020023.JPG
.... and so on

it's not even alpha it appears. I have about 300 pics to upload and I
really don't want to do these manually.

Thanks!

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

What is the logic used for the display order on images when the wizard
appears. With my sony it shows the images in the right order (oldest
first) but my new olympus.

For example, it's showing in this order

PC040159.JPG
PC020023.JPG
... and so on

it's not even alpha it appears. I have about 300 pics to upload and I
really don't want to do these manually.

Not sure which "wizard" you mean.

The display order in most file explorer windows and dialogs is
alphabetical, and in most it can be switched from A-Z to Z-A
just by clicking on the "Name" column heading.

It sounds like you may have inadvertently clicked on "Name"
and put that directory in a Z-A mode.

-michael

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."

 

[Mark]

I mean the ' Scanner and camera wizard' that pops up when you turn on
your camera when connected via USB.

There is no sort option there.

If I view the folder via explorer, in either name or date modified
format, it's in the right order, but when the wizard displays the
images, it isn't using that sort. I can't tell what sort it's using.
To go through 300 pics to determine the right date will be a pain.

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

I mean the ' Scanner and camera wizard' that pops up when you turn on
your camera when connected via USB.

There is no sort option there.

If I view the folder via explorer, in either name or date modified
format, it's in the right order, but when the wizard displays the
images, it isn't using that sort. I can't tell what sort it's using.
To go through 300 pics to determine the right date will be a pain.

I agree.

I never use the wizard, just to keep things simple. ;-)

-michael

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."

 

[Mark]

I use it because I like the auto re-numbering. What tool do you use?

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

I use it because I like the auto re-numbering. What tool do you use?

I never change the names or numbers of my *originals*.

For all photos that I have worked on, I save them with their original
(camera-created) names with a coded suffix describing the changes I
have made to the copies.

For example, if I adjust levels for a photo named P12400143.jpg, I
would save the modified photo as P12400143a.jpg. If I did a more
complex adjustment involving a mask, for example, then the suffix
would be "A", not "a", and so forth. As additional editing
steps are taken, a saved photo will "grow" additional suffixes.

A photo that has had levels adjusted, noise reduced, and cropped
would be P12400167aNc.jpg, for example.

The originals are *never* changed, and the modified versions are
stored in the same (topical) directory as the originals.

All photos that I select for some use, like printing, slide show,
or sharing, are saved as copies of the originals or modified versions
in another descriptively named directory (often a subdirectory of
the original directory).

If all photos are from one camera, the normal alphabetical ordering
puts them in timeline order, which is my usual choice. If the
photos come from two or more cameras, then I use a utility to prefix
to all the names the date and time, in lexicographic order, so that
all photos are merged into a common timeline. Exifer is a fine program
for that (and other) purposes, allowing for correction of mis-set
camera clocks, among other things.

For slide shows, I usually use Photo Story 3, and just re-arrange
occasional photos when the timeline order isn't the desired order.

Since I don't do major resequencing from timeline order, I've never
found it necessary to have a tool for that.

This works pretty well for me, for what is currently a 87,000 photo
library. I find that hierarchical topical directories with timeline
order withing the directories serves quite well.

I have not found any tool that manages my photos as well.

-michael

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."

 

[Galina Kolpatcheva \(MSFT\)]

Did you hear about Windows Live Photo Gallery? It is free software you can
download from http://get.live.com and it helps to organize your photos.
Windows Live Photo Gallery Importing wizard is very easy to use and gives
you such options like tagging your images while importing, sorting them
based on the time they were taken, etc. It works on Windows XP. Give it a
try!