Stop alphabetising my photos...

[Guest]

Hi all,

I have just finished putting the 1000 or so photos of my recent holiday into
order, and naming each one with the names of the people in the photos.

Now I find that no matter what I do, when i try to burn these photos onto a
CD, it puts them all into alphabetical order, which of course is not the
order they were taken in.

Does anyone know how to burn the photos in the order I had them in originally?

Thanks.

 

[Jim]

Hi all,

I have just finished putting the 1000 or so photos of my recent holiday
into
order, and naming each one with the names of the people in the photos.

Now I find that no matter what I do, when i try to burn these photos onto
a
CD, it puts them all into alphabetical order, which of course is not the
order they were taken in.

Does anyone know how to burn the photos in the order I had them in
originally?

Thanks.

The only way is to name the files in alphabetical order. You can change the
order that the icons appear on the monitor alright, but that is just a
cosmetic change.

Jim

 

[Guest]

You will be able to organize photos by date if you change the view of your
folder. From the top bar, click 'view', then slide down to 'details'. in
Detail view, you can organize files by several attributes; name, file size,
date created, date picture taken etc. by clicking the top bar of the
respective columns.

I'm not sure what program you use to burn photos, but organizing your photos
in this way may help you do what you're trying to do.

 

[Squire]

Jim,
If the pictures were all the same name such as "Holiday"
Wouldn't XP simply add progressive numbers to them?
Maybe the people names could be added to the photo's.

 

[Jim]

Jim,
If the pictures were all the same name such as "Holiday"
Wouldn't XP simply add progressive numbers to them?
Maybe the people names could be added to the photo's.

If you try to copy more than one file names, for example, holiday.jpg, all
you will have is the last file you copied. Windows does not rename files
for any reason by itself.

Now, if it only had a version number capability, you could have a very large
number of files whose only difference was the version number. But it
doesn't and by all accounts it never will.

Jim

 

[Jim]

You will be able to organize photos by date if you change the view of your
folder. From the top bar, click 'view', then slide down to 'details'. in
Detail view, you can organize files by several attributes; name, file
size,
date created, date picture taken etc. by clicking the top bar of the
respective columns.

I'm not sure what program you use to burn photos, but organizing your
photos
in this way may help you do what you're trying to do.

All that does is change the appearance on the screen. The burning software
goes by the file names.

What he needs to do is to create a slide show. You arrange photos in a
slide show any way you choose.
Jim

 

[Squire]

OK, I was just wondering,
My wife had a group of pictures on her machine and she put a name on the
first one and the rest followed in order by number as she added them.
I don't know what was happening but it worked for her.
It might have been a slide show.

 

[Jerry]

Rename them all with numbers as the starting item: 001 (name), 002 (name),
etc. Then they will be 'in order' for burning.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help everyone,

it looks like I'll have to make a slide show. That was a really good idea
Jim, I never would have thought of that....

thanks again.

 

[MayDay]

OK, I was just wondering,
My wife had a group of pictures on her machine and she put a name on the
first one and the rest followed in order by number as she added them.
I don't know what was happening but it worked for her.
It might have been a slide show.

If you have a group of files selected and then rename one, it will then
number the rest of the files accordingly.