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Is there any way to turn off the sorting in windows explorer? When I upload
files from digital camera, windows sorts it in its own way when I want to
keep them in the order I took them. It's not that 1,10,100,2 stuff..it's
entirely random-looking. For instance: explorer lists 001,002,003,004,005,
but the actual photos are really 005,014,003,002,006. See? no order. Any
suggestions?
 
Files are stored alphabetically on NTFS and in order written in Fat32 (deletions can complicate this). Therefore if Explorer doesn't sort they will be in one of the above order. Perhaps sort by Date Modified or Date Picture Taken. Turn on the column in Detail view then you can sort by that in any view. You can also reorder them by hand.
 
You said I could re-order them by hand, but this method would involve
renaming each photo individually,right? So, in order of date taken would
work the best?
 
In most views the icons can be placed by hand by dragging it where you want. But this in folder specific and depends on the path used to access the folder. So sorting by date would be easist.

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karenr said:
You said I could re-order them by hand, but this method would involve
renaming each photo individually,right? So, in order of date taken would
work the best?
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Thanks, David. I tried that and it worked to the point where I can use it.
I just have to move the ones within that date when I put them into Nero to
burn. Thanks again.
PS - thanks for not being a smartass like lots of people on these forums :)
 
I'm pretty sure CDs are alphabetical.

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From Help
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To rename a series of files

1.. Open My Documents.
If the series of files you want to rename is not located in My Documents or its subfolders, use Search to find it. To open Search, click Start, and then click Search.

2.. Select the files you want to rename.
3.. On the File menu, click Rename.
4.. Type the new name, and then press ENTER.
All of the files in the series will be named in sequence using the new name you type. For example, if you type Birthday, the other files in the series will be named Birthday (1), Birthday (2), and so on.

Notes

a.. To open My Documents, click Start, and then click My Documents.
b.. To select consecutive files or folders, click the first item, press and hold down SHIFT, and then click the last item. To select nonconsecutive files or folders, press and hold down CTRL, and then click each item.
c.. To specify the starting number for the series, type the starting number in parenthesis after the new file name. The files in the series will be numbered in sequence starting with the number you type. For example, if you type Birthday (10), the other files will be named Birthday (11), Birthday (12), and so on.
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Where are the files. I can tell you how to add the existing date into the file name quickly using a command prompt.

for %A in (*.jpeg) do ren "%A" "%~tnxA"

which runs this command on each file (5:23 is when I created the test file) in a folder

ren "filename.jpeg" "19/12/2005 05:23 AM filename.jpeg"

Now the above won't work where I live as / is a path or switch character and : is a drive character. So I would have to change my regional settings for date/time (use dash [-] and period [.] as they are legal characters) before running the command.

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karenr said:
Thanks, David. I tried that and it worked to the point where I can use it.
I just have to move the ones within that date when I put them into Nero to
burn. Thanks again.
PS - thanks for not being a smartass like lots of people on these forums :)
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Have you looked in VIEW (windows Explorer) menu item? There is something
called: "Choose Details" and you can move up and Down items as you wish. You
will need to tick the ones you are interested in.

hth
 
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