TSGL: sorting & re-numbering pictures

[Tilman Brandl]

Don,

sorry, I guess there was a mental bottleneck on my side .... ;-/

I'm not used to work with explorer, so didn't comprehend your "you can do 
this in XP..."

Unfortunately my XP doesn't keep the sort-order if changed manually. I'll 
try to look for a fix, if there is any - my XP btw has all the recent 
updates!

Doing this under explorer would be a viable method. XP's renaming isn't 
exactly what I would wish for, but I could batch-'beautify' the names 
afterwards quite easily.

Going to find an OLE solution ...

Thanks a lot
Tilman
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Don Penlington
  To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
  Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:41 AM
  Subject: Re: TSGL: sorting & re-numbering pictures


  At 02:33 AM 12/17/2007 +0100, you wrote:
  >It would be great if I could use some smart program that would allow
  >- manual sorting + re-ordering of pics, followed by
  >- automated renaming of all pics, including those that were moved into 
new
  >positions.>>


  Now I'm more confused. Maybe I'm just having a "thick" day! You can do 
that
  in XP without using any 3rd party software.

  1. Within each folder, drag n drop the pix around until they're in the
  order you want. (If they won't stay where you drop them, you have an OLE
  problem within XP which is not uncommon).

  2. Select all.

  3. Right click No 1, choose "rename" and type Leg or whatever. (Just
  hitting F2, as I said before, will put the last photo first---a strange
  anomaly in XP)

  4. They should then remain in the same order within that folder, with
  sequential names---eg leg, leg(1), leg(2) etc.

  Isn't that what you want? You will, of course, have to put all the desired
  pix into one single folder to achieve the desired effect. But I should
  think that would also be necessary with any external software.

  Don Penlington