Change Sort Order in Folder Location View – PSE V6.0

I have been using the ‘batch’ Rename function which I believed would be really useful, so that images could be named with proper names rather than the usual IMG001,002 etc. So I adopted a solution of renaming all the files as Spain Holiday 2007-1,-2 up to 11 in one of my folders. Thinking that PSE6 would then still order the pictures properly. It doesn’t unfortunately. I’m guessing PSE6 treats the field as ‘text’ rather than interpreting the number at the end, and this means you get the following order:

Spain Holiday 2007-1
Spain Holiday 2007-10
Spain Holiday 2007-11
Spain Holiday 2007-2
etc. etc.

Annoying and frustratingly, everything appears in the wrong order and any attempt to rename as a batch now means that it will treat number 10 before number 2.

Using the Instant Tag function doesn’t change anything really as you can use Date View anytime, tagged or not. The Date view ‘view’ has no capacity to show pictures like the Browser view, so that you can see lots of thumbnails in the middle with all their names as far as I can see.
So in short – I think it’s a frustrating ‘feature’ that we can’t sort in date order in the browser view.

I keep having to go back to Windows Explorer now to see pictures in the right order – not what I thought would be happening having just paid £80 for PSE6.

If anyone has any a handy hint or work around I’d love to hear them.
Many thanks.

I have been using the ‘batch’ Rename function which I believed would be really useful, so that images could be named with proper names rather than the usual IMG001,002 etc. So I adopted a solution of renaming all the files as Spain Holiday 2007-1,-2 up to 11 in one of my folders. Thinking that PSE6 would then still order the pictures properly. It doesn’t unfortunately. I’m guessing PSE6 treats the field as ‘text’ rather than interpreting the number at the end, and this means you get the following order:

Spain Holiday 2007-1
Spain Holiday 2007-10
Spain Holiday 2007-11
Spain Holiday 2007-2
etc. etc.

Annoying and frustratingly, everything appears in the wrong order and any attempt to rename as a batch now means that it will treat number 10 before number 2.

Using the Instant Tag function doesn’t change anything really as you can use Date View anytime, tagged or not. The Date view ‘view’ has no capacity to show pictures like the Browser view, so that you can see lots of thumbnails in the middle with all their names as far as I can see.

So in short – I think it’s a frustrating ‘feature’ that we can’t sort in date order in the browser view.

I keep having to go back to Windows Explorer now to see pictures in the right order – not what I thought would be happening having just paid £80 for PSE6.

If anyone has any a handy hint or work around I’d love to hear them.
Many thanks.

I have been using the ‘batch’ Rename function which I believed would be really useful, so that images could be named with proper names rather than the usual IMG001,002 etc. So I adopted a solution of renaming all the files as Spain Holiday 2007-1,-2 up to 11 in one of my folders. Thinking that PSE6 would then still order the pictures properly. It doesn’t unfortunately. I’m guessing PSE6 treats the field as ‘text’ rather than interpreting the number at the end, and this means you get the following order:

Spain Holiday 2007-1
Spain Holiday 2007-10
Spain Holiday 2007-11
Spain Holiday 2007-2
etc. etc.

Annoying and frustratingly, everything appears in the wrong order and any attempt to rename as a batch now means that it will treat number 10 before number 2.

Using the Instant Tag function doesn’t change anything really as you can use Date View anytime, tagged or not. The Date view ‘view’ has no capacity to show pictures like the Browser view, so that you can see lots of thumbnails in the middle with all their names as far as I can see.

So in short – I think it’s a frustrating ‘feature’ that we can’t sort in date order in the browser view.

I keep having to go back to Windows Explorer now to see pictures in the right order – not what I thought would be happening having just paid £80 for PSE6.

If anyone has any a handy hint or work around I’d love to hear them.
Many thanks.

Ad a placekeeping zero for the single digit numbers. then the sort will keep them in order.

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:56:55 +0100, "Badger"
wrote:

I have been using the ‘batch’ Rename function which I believed would be really useful, so that images could be named with proper names rather than the usual IMG001,002 etc. So I adopted a solution of renaming all the files
as Spain Holiday 2007-1,-2 up to 11 in one of my folders. Thinking that PSE6
would then still order the pictures properly. It doesn’t unfortunately. I’m
guessing PSE6 treats the field as ‘text’ rather than interpreting the number
at the end, and this means you get the following order:

Spain Holiday 2007-1
Spain Holiday 2007-10
Spain Holiday 2007-11
Spain Holiday 2007-2
etc. etc.

Annoying and frustratingly, everything appears in the wrong order and any attempt to rename as a batch now means that it will treat number 10 before number 2.

Using the Instant Tag function doesn’t change anything really as you can use
Date View anytime, tagged or not. The Date view ‘view’ has no capacity to show pictures like the Browser view, so that you can see lots of thumbnails
in the middle with all their names as far as I can see.

So in short – I think it’s a frustrating ‘feature’ that we can’t sort in date order in the browser view.

I keep having to go back to Windows Explorer now to see pictures in the right order – not what I thought would be happening having just paid

I have been using the ‘batch’ Rename function which I believed would be really useful, so that images could be named with proper names rather than the usual IMG001,002 etc. So I adopted a solution of renaming all the files as Spain Holiday 2007-1,-2 up to 11 in one of my folders. Thinking that PSE6 would then still order the pictures properly. It doesn’t unfortunately. I’m guessing PSE6 treats the field as ‘text’ rather than interpreting the number at the end, and this means you get the following order:

Spain Holiday 2007-1
Spain Holiday 2007-10
Spain Holiday 2007-11
Spain Holiday 2007-2
etc. etc.

Annoying and frustratingly, everything appears in the wrong order and any attempt to rename as a batch now means that it will treat number 10 before number 2.

Using the Instant Tag function doesn’t change anything really as you can use Date View anytime, tagged or not. The Date view ‘view’ has no capacity to show pictures like the Browser view, so that you can see lots of thumbnails in the middle with all their names as far as I can see.
So in short – I think it’s a frustrating ‘feature’ that we can’t sort in date order in the browser view.

I keep having to go back to Windows Explorer now to see pictures in the right order – not what I thought would be happening having just paid

Many thanks. So simple! However, it is a shame Adobe cannot sort the software out in the first place.

Try this, as it might work. And let me know if it does:
Spain Holiday 2007-01 instead of SH 2007-1. Obviously if you have over 100 files, start with -001.
Marty in NJ

"Badger" wrote in message

I have been using the ‘batch’ Rename function which I believed would be really useful, so that images could be named with proper names rather than the usual IMG001,002 etc. So I adopted a solution of renaming all the files as Spain Holiday 2007-1,-2 up to 11 in one of my folders. Thinking that PSE6 would then still order the pictures properly. It doesn’t unfortunately. I’m guessing PSE6 treats the field as ‘text’ rather than interpreting the number at the end, and this means you get the following order:

Spain Holiday 2007-1
Spain Holiday 2007-10
Spain Holiday 2007-11
Spain Holiday 2007-2
etc. etc.

Annoying and frustratingly, everything appears in the wrong order and any attempt to rename as a batch now means that it will treat number 10 before number 2.

Using the Instant Tag function doesn’t change anything really as you can use Date View anytime, tagged or not. The Date view ‘view’ has no capacity to show pictures like the Browser view, so that you can see lots of thumbnails in the middle with all their names as far as I can see.
So in short – I think it’s a frustrating ‘feature’ that we can’t sort in date order in the browser view.

I keep having to go back to Windows Explorer now to see pictures in the right order – not what I thought would be happening having just paid