why doesn't xp copy pictures in order that are in folder

[Guest]

Hello,
I am copying folders, that contain dated pictures, onto a CD. The pictures
are in chronological order in the folder, but they are not on the burned CD.
Is there any way to have the CD order the same as on the hard drive? Thank
you!

 

[Yves Alarie]

When XP reads a CD, it sorts (or list) files by file name only. You cannot
sort by date, file size, etc like on your hard drive.
However, there is a way around this. Once you have the photo files in any
order you want in a folder on your hard drive, batch rename them and then
copy these files to your CD. Easy to do, go to this site and follow
instructions:

http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-OrganizePictures.html

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much! I will try this!
--
Maggie

When XP reads a CD, it sorts (or list) files by file name only. You cannot
sort by date, file size, etc like on your hard drive.
However, there is a way around this. Once you have the photo files in any
order you want in a folder on your hard drive, batch rename them and then
copy these files to your CD. Easy to do, go to this site and follow
instructions:

http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-OrganizePictures.html

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

When XP reads a CD, it sorts (or list) files by file name only. You cannot
sort by date, file size, etc like on your hard drive.
However, there is a way around this. Once you have the photo files in any
order you want in a folder on your hard drive, batch rename them and then
copy these files to your CD. Easy to do, go to this site and follow
instructions:

It seemed surprising that Windows Explorer would function differently
with CDs than with, say, hard disks, so I tried it.

Sorting by (any) column works fine with CDs.

Perhaps the real issue is that the order of the files *as processed*
will depend on the application that opens the directory. Since most
applications will support alphabetical ordering, appropriate file
renaming will make just about any app happy.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

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[Yves Alarie]

Something must have changed, maybe with SP2, because I also just tried what
you did and it did work.
So thanks for pointing this out.
Nevertheless, it still does not solve the problem fully since you need to
have the ability to sort using this field with the software being used and
so on.
So, as far as I know, the only way is to rename and even this is not
universal because the XP rename function does not yield file names
compatible with Unix.
A real pain.