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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
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
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