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Offline Henry Gilbey

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Please - sequential....
« on: July 12, 2010, 09:05:27 AM »
Sorry, I think I have asked this before, but it's driving me mad...........

Please, please, and please again - surely there can be a way of getting one's folder tree on the left hand side to run sequentially, as in Windows etc. - nice and simple 1, 2, 3....., 10, 11....., 20, 21. It is so frustrating that instead PM sets it as say 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20 etc., or in my case with the way my images are stored/catgalogued, something even more complicated.

It might not sound much, but it is making it increasingly hard for me to move, copy and delete images, to the point where it's just so much easier to sometimes head over to Windows to do things that should be far easier in PM. I have to really look for the correct folder in PM because of the non-sequential way that folders are displayed, whereas in Windows say it is entirely logical - to me anyway !!

I love the programme, use it all the time, but this is making life increasingly difficult, to the point where I am thinking about looking for an editing programme that will allow me to show my folder trees in a proper, logical sequence.

Can it be done ?

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Re: Please - sequential....
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2010, 10:36:57 AM »
Henry,

Sorry, I think I have asked this before, but it's driving me mad...........

Please, please, and please again - surely there can be a way of getting one's folder tree on the left hand side to run sequentially, as in Windows etc. - nice and simple 1, 2, 3....., 10, 11....., 20, 21. It is so frustrating that instead PM sets it as say 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 2, 20 etc., or in my case with the way my images are stored/catgalogued, something even more complicated.

It might not sound much, but it is making it increasingly hard for me to move, copy and delete images, to the point where it's just so much easier to sometimes head over to Windows to do things that should be far easier in PM. I have to really look for the correct folder in PM because of the non-sequential way that folders are displayed, whereas in Windows say it is entirely logical - to me anyway !!

I love the programme, use it all the time, but this is making life increasingly difficult, to the point where I am thinking about looking for an editing programme that will allow me to show my folder trees in a proper, logical sequence.

Can it be done ?

Not without a modification to Photo Mechanic itself.  You can however, rename the folders, adding leading zeroes to the single digit folder names.  1 becomes 01, 2 becomes 02, etc. and then they'll sort just fine.

-Kirk