Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: MachFly on December 04, 2011, 07:20:29 PM
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Half the time when I save pictures to the my pictures folder they don't get saved in order. Even when I right click it and select sort by date they still end up being in the wrong order.
It really makes it hard to find pictures that I just saved when they end up being around the pictures I saved in 2009 or something like that. Most often this happens with the pictures that I save from airliners.net.
I been trying to find a way to get around this but had no luck.
Any help will be appreciated.
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Picture management is mostly individual choice I think. Windows 7 has the best setup for an OS with its Libraries. As for programs I think Picasa is very well thought of and *free.* I use Adobe Bridge myself which isnt free and is linked to all my editing programs.
Which OS are you using?
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Picture management is mostly individual choice I think. Windows 7 has the best setup for an OS with its Libraries. As for programs I think Picasa is very well thought of and *free.* I use Adobe Bridge myself which isnt free and is linked to all my editing programs.
Which OS are you using?
I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate.
I'd rather not download another program to organize my picture (but I will if I wont have any other choice), is some hidden setting that can be screwing this up for me?
You spoke about Libraries on Win7, what are those?
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If you use Windows Explorer the default base view (where the program starts viewing) is Libraries. Libraries are not actually folders and so you may set them up the way you prefer including stacks, groups and saved searches. I prefer to move my Libraries off of the main drive for two reasons. First, as the Libraries grow they will take more and more of the prime real estate of your hard drive which you should use to optimize your system for speed (for more details look up my previous comments on O&O Defrag). Second, I prefer to have my primary drive setup without indexing services.
Under Libraries you will see Documents, Games, Music, Pictures, Videos and of course others if you set them up yourself or as custom programs are installed. These individual libraries are designed to provide organization to any location or locations you choose. When you choose to arrange views by Month, Day, rating and so on you are actually creating a virtual folder that doesnt have any real physical form. Actually all of the Libraries structure is virtual. The purpose is to aggregate content from numerous physical folders so you can set up your own custom infrastructure. In other words you can link to many different physical folders on your system even across drives and the Library view will display them according to your choices.
There are two free tools (programs) that I suggest you download (you can decide if you need to) to make things easier. One is Windows Live Photo Gallery that includes a lot of features you may find very handy. The other is Zune which despite the failure of the hardware device is a program that makes staying up to date on podcasts, music and videos (and managing Libraries) very easy.
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Actually I have Windows Live Photo Gallery, but I never used it. Just tried it and it works great.
Thanks
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Just found another option. When you right click, mouse over "sort by", click "more" a window opens up with hundreds of options of what you can sort it by. I added the option "date created" instead of just "date" (as it was before) and now everything gets arranged by the exact order that I saved it in.