Sort by filename?

Hi, I've just started using PSE and I'm in need of a little help. I'm trying to print off over 2000 photos in a certain order, but I've found that there doesn't seem to be any order by filename option? Putting the photo's into filename order is critical, going into folder location does not help and the prospect of sorting >2000 photos into albums doesn't seem like an enticing prospect.
Does the 'Organizer" honestly not have this simple feature? Won't be buying after trial ends if this is the case.

Taking a shot at answering your inquiry. Answer may not be what you want.
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I have many picture files scanned & digitized from old slides, and in Windows 7, they show up as depicted in the print screen in Details View. If you right click, it brings up a context menu from which you can rename. This function may be restricted as to numbers that one can rename.

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Hello!
In N95, the default sorting of images (and photos) is by date-time. This is stupid and useless, because:
- I edit some of my taken photos, so they have different datetime stamps than originals
- I always manualy define the order of photos by putting numbered prefixes in filenames.
The gallery on N95 should be able to sort by filename. I cannot find a "sort by" option. Is there any?
Or did Nokia forget to add such an important option?
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So it seems that the only solution is to "touch" files (modify timestamp); in groups, so I can simulate "albums" (all files in one group get the same timestamp). Then the files are sorted by filename.
But this is possible only using microSD card, connected through "Data transfer mode" to PC.
I don't know who programmed this gallery application, but it is really some of the worst programs which I saw. Didn't they ask any user what we want? Yesterday I tried to copy a lot of my journey photos (around 4000) to memory card and what then? Each time when I opened the gallery, photos was processed around 2 minutes before displaying!!! I hate this application. Why does it need to count the photos? And, if it really needs the total number of photos, it can store the number or make some database, which is refreshed on demand, like music list.
And, I don't find any option, to hide some folders from displaying. For example, I have some photos for contacts, and I don't want them to be displayed in gallery. Is this possible?
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I'm having a lot of issues getting used to using I tunes. The ipod touch is my first apple product. I've always used windows devices until now. The main issue i'm having is itunes doesn't have an option to sort by filename. So when i'm adding all my audio books to itunes the don't play in the correct order.
For example the book i just got was on 12 cd's each cd has around 24 tracks. With my windows device i drag and drop them from my computer and browse to the folder on the device and i'm playing the audio book.
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Sorting By FileName

The endless dilemma.
If I have 20 images named 1.jpg, 2.jpg up to 20.jpg and I import them into Lightroom and sort by filename, it sorts them alphanumerically:
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12.jpg...
19.jpg
2.jpg
21.jpg...
Without having to add leading zeros to my filenames, can Lightroom sort these numerically as my finder does? Is there a setting I'm missing?

I have a similar problem. My experience suggests it is not an issue with padded zeros. The issue for me is that in using an XP platform, Lightroom uses what is called "intuitive filename sorting." This was a change in the way XP sorted.
"In previous versions of Windows, filenames are sorted text-wise, character by character. File1.txt, File10.txt, and File100.txt are all placed before File2.txt, because the digit 1 comes before the digit 2. Most users have grown accustomed to zero-padding sequential numbers in filenamesFile010.txt correctly comes after File002.txt. Under Windows XP, though, each block of consecutive digits is treated as a number and sorted as such. Even without zero-padding, File10.txt comes after File2.txt."
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Right now I get the following:
0024-0013.jpg
0024-14-01.jpg
0024-0014.jpg
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0024-0014.jpg
0024-14-01.jpg
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Unable to sort by filename in PSE11 Organizer

I notice that in PSE11 Organiser, it is not possible to sort images by "filename". As this is such a fundamental feature in any file manager, I assume that this must be an oversight and not intentional. Does Adobe have any plans to issue an update to address this problem in the very near future?
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As a matter of fact, alphabetical sort is never useful if you generally ignore the folder view and use the normal thumbnail view and tags and categories. If you don't rename your files (like most users), alphabetical and date order are the same. I can imagine why that has not been considered important by Adobe when they changed the old buggy folder view.
What they have most probably overlooked is that many users rely on folder view and that some rename all their pictures, especially those scanning many pictures.
So there has been already a number of posts about that problem and Adobe must be now aware of the problem.
I have already reported that and suggested that they create an option for alphabetical sort in albums, for captions as well as filename. That does not seem a big deal to implement for the next version. I believe that such a sort in the normal folder view (not in albums) would be trickier to implement without risking new bugs.

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stone09 wrote:
I have imported 273 photos into an album in Photoshop Elements Organizer. They originally came from 2 different digital cameras, so the date stamp on them is different. All the photos were combined and sorted by filename before they were imported. I want to keep them in this order for creating a DVD.
stone09
This approach has worked in many versions of Photoshop Elements for making an Album based on file name within a single Windows folder - but I can't say for sure about version 8.
Since you say they were combined and sorted by filename, I am guessing that you have all of those photos in a single Windows folder.
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Another consideration -looking ahead to your actions
You mention burning to a DVD - if this will be a slideshow burned to a standard definition video DVD for TV playback, I wonder what resolution those photos are? For example, were they from a 5 megapixel camera or a 12 megapixel camera ?
The dilemma is that the resolution of your photo files could be too high for processing 273 photos to make the slide show. If you will be burning a standard definition video DVD from Premiere Elements, there is a recommendation to have the photo files used for the slide show be a resolution of approximately 1000x750 pixels (or equivalent adjustment if you will do widescreen). In a way this is the opposite of printing where if the resolution is too low, the print quality will be poor. For slideshows written to video DVD, too high a resolution stresses the process of making the video and can either reduce quality of image in the final video or cause crashes.
If you will be burning to a Bluray DVD or displaying on a computer monitor , then the resolution should be somewhat higher - but a 12 MP camera will still give too large a resolution. The Process Muliple Files function in the PSE Editor or the File > Export new file in the Organizer provide methods to take your entire folder of photo files and create "downsized" resolution files that are written to a different folder so that your current files are untouched.

How do I sort photos by filename. I have some 5000 photos involved in different albums

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Is this with iPhoto? Or on an iPad? If iPhoto, have you looked at the View Menu -> Sort Photos options?
Regards
TD

PS11-Organizer:How to sort images by filename...

Surely this is possible, but I've yet to figure out a way to do this.
Can it be done?
It would make it much easier to review/scan your library contents.
Thanks!

Sort by Filename functionality is introduced in Organizer12. In Organizer11 this feature is not avaialbe. A cumbersom workaround in Organizer11 is mentioned on this post: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5233687#5233687
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When experimenting with the sort order of albums in PSE11, I was surprised to see that in some albums, changing the sort order from 'oldest' to 'newest' did not produce any effect.
The reason of this probably lies in the menu /preferences/general :
If you have only pictures taken the same day, the above setting will still show 'oldest first' even you choose 'newest first' for album order.
I believe that the most used order is 'album order' and that the 'newest first' is very rare.
I can understand the option to browse 'oldest first within each day' when in 'newest first' in thumbnail view.
However, I wonder if that option makes sense to sort an album ?
Was it by design ?
If it were me...
I would not use that preference for an album,
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I would add the option to sort by filename and caption.

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