Vista - Photo sequencing issue when renaming multiple Pics !!

I am having the same re-naming issue with Vista that i saw someone else
had on this forum some time ago. I can't find the original posting but I
don't think it was ever properly resolved.

The Problem:

I want to arrange a folder of different photos in a specific order
(that is relevant to me) and then to rename the files so that they have
a common name and are also numbered sequentially in the order i have put
them in.

I did this all the time with XP, but when i try to do the same thing
with Vista it seems to jumble up the order i have placed the photos in
and number them in a random order as well.

I am trying to do this in the windows explorer documents > pictures
folder. What I am doing 1st is arranging the pictures in my prefered
sequence (using the drag and drop & align to grid process), then
selecting them all and then right clicking and renaming them all at
once.

When i did this on XP, the picture i put first would be named, for
example, Wedding (1), the picture I put second would be named and
numbered Wedding (2) and then Wedding (3), (4), (5) and so on... All
named and numbered in my chosen sequence.

Easy.. or at least it was with XP! With Vista it seems to jumble up the
order I have chosen in the renaming process for no apparent or obvious
reason. For example the photo that i wanted to be named Wedding (2) (and
which i placed second in the order of files) comes out named, Wedding
(41) and put in the middle somewhere. And all the others in the
collection are placed all over the place as well.

The new jumbled up order Vista has chosen to display and rename and
number my photos in has no logic either. ie. it hasn't chosen an order
relevant to any name, date or anything else obvious.

Is it because Vista can't handle the fact that i want to arrange and
then rename pictures in a folder that are from several different sources
ie. photos from 2 different cameras and also scans from other photos
too? XP didn't have a problem doing this!

The reason i am not using the 'order by' date or name options to
arrange and display them is that they all have very different names (as
they are from many different sources) and they are all taken on
different dates so this option is no good to me either. I need to
organise them myself as Vista does not have a 'Sort By' option that I
want to arrange my photos in. Surely i should be able to arrange a group
of pictures in a folder in a desired sequence and then number them in
the same order without having to number 1000's of them individually.

I have noticed that if I try and rename them in the photo gallery it
does it okay, however the problem in the gallery is I cannot arrange the
photos the way i want to 1st as the 'order by' function is limited to
date, name, size etc. I cannot customise the display to my chosen order
of preference.

I know someone else was having this exact problem and I hope what I
want to do is explained clearly so I was hoping someone out there could
explain what if anything I am doing wrong or if this is another Vista
irregularity.

Thanks in advance.


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1206nick
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1206nick, I am having the same problems! When our office renames a batch
of photos from a Vista PC, it always puts the last 1 or 2 photos as the
sequential first in the new batch.

E.g., if I was renaming three pictures named "1406 Main St. (1)", "1406
Main St. (2)", and "1406 Main St. (3)" TO "Snow Pic (1)", "Snow Pic
(2)", and "Snow Pic (3)". Vista will throw "1406 Main St. (3)" to the
front and call it "Snow Pic (1)"!

Hopefully that's not too confusing. Essentially, the issue seems to be
rooted in Vista's inability to properly sequentiate (I think I just made
up a word) photos according to their chronological order.

I saw you posted on multiple sites--have you gotten any helpful
responses anywhere? Thx


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zacman83
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Hi there,

No i'm afraid this does not seem to have been addressed in anywhere i
have searched. I have resorted to dragging my pictures onto a flash
drive and renaming them on my mum's XP computer.

A bit of a long way of doing it, but definately quicker and less
frustrating than having to try and do it through Vista. Maybe the
service pack will address this issue, but it doesn't seem to be too
widely reported. Sorry I can't be of any more help.


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1206nick
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Hi. I'm new to this whole thing, but it would appear that the gallery does
not allow individual placement of each picture, then save those positions to
a memory, so that when you come back in with another similar picture to group
with an existing collection, the gallery displays them in the sequence you
placed them it.'

What's up with that???

"1206nick" wrote:

I hope I am understanding you correctly, forgive me if I don't.
In the "explorer" folder try clicking on "view" and then deselecting "auto arrange" then arrange them in the order you wish them to be, then click on "edit" "select all" and right click with the mouse and "rename" starting with "00" , then select auto arrange under view again.

"dbknox" wrote:

I am so glad to see these posts. I have been trying to sequentially arrange
my 1000 photos taken in Egypt for over a month. Most of the photos are mine
-- hundreds are from other people on the trip -- downloaded hi-res photos
from Snapfish. I have renamed hundreds of pictures by going in one by one
-- putting decimals in the numbering sequence to get them in the right order.
(probably was an easier way -- I'm new to this.)

They appear in photo gallery fine one minute, but then get all out of order
the next time I go in. And forget about burning my album to a CD! I hadn't
been able to figure out the naming conventions that caused them to get so
jumbled up -- now I see it may be an alphabetic order may solve this problem.
But I still don't know how to name them so photo gallery will keep them in
the order I want.

Has anyone found out further info on this subject since the last posts?

Thanks!