Re: Copying pictures in a certain order

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:54:30 GMT, "Jim" <j.n@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"kayla" <afwt_hotmail.com@> wrote in message
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Could somebody please tell me how to burn a cd by having the pictures
sorted by date instead of alphabetically using Windows XP and My
Pictures folder.

Thnaks
Lori
You cannot.
However, when you are getting a list of files on the CD, with Windows
Explorer for instance, you can instruct the program to present the list as
you wish. All you do is click on the column whose order you wish to
specify.

For instance, to sort by date, click on the date column.
To sort by size, click on the size column.
To sort by file name (the default), click on the file column.

And, you can get Explorer to sort in either ascending or descending order.

But, there is no way to control the order in which the files get stored.
Finding out which order the files actually reside on the disk requires a
program with much more capability than Explorer.

Jim
You are correct that Explorer will list in name order by default and
in order by another column if desired. (This order isn't the expected
ASCII lexical order, but that is another issue.)

However, some CD burning programs will put burn the files in the
order that you put them on the list to be burnt. Other programs will
put them in order buy the MFT or other meta-data record number.
Therefore the original poster try listing the files in the order
desired and then copying them one at a time to the "build" list.
If needed, set things up so that the build list files are on a newly
formatted pseudo disk so that the meta-data entries correspond to the
order that the files are entered, which in turn corresponds to the
sort order desired. Using normal Windows XP commands requires copying
the files to the work area one by one, but there probably is a free
program that will copy the files in the order that they are listed.
(You can't just use one of those utilities directly since you can't
write to the CD directly without running in to other complications.)
.

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