[alycidon]

This isn't a new problem, but has anyone a useful solution?

When I upload photos from my SD card to my PC, and then again to a CD or flash drive, when they are shown through my blu-ray recorder, they come out in haphazard order, even though the order on the CD/USB is exactly that of the SD card, i.e. in the order of being taken.

If I slot the SD card directly into the TV, then the order is correct. Maybe if I were to add rising consecutive numbers to the files, the blu-ray would surely recognise the numeric sequence and abide by it?

[Nigel Goodwin]

Originally Posted by alycidon

This isn't a new problem, but has anyone a useful solution?

When I upload photos from my SD card to my PC, and then again to a CD or flash drive, when they are shown through my blu-ray recorder, they come out in haphazard order, even though the order on the CD/USB is exactly that of the SD card, i.e. in the order of being taken.

If I slot the SD card directly into the TV, then the order is correct. Maybe if I were to add rising consecutive numbers to the files, the blu-ray would surely recognise the numeric sequence and abide by it?

Presumably it's not 'random', it's in some specific order - if it's alphabetical, then you can indeed alter the filenames to put them in the order you wish.

But first you need to decide exactly what order they are in.

[evil c]

To follow on from what Nigel said, it may also be sorting by case as well, so upper case would be a higher priority than lower case. If it is numerical you could put leading zeros in so eg, 040 would appear before 140.

[alycidon]

Well, the photofiles are entitled 'Seil Island 001' to 'Seil Island 085', so you might think that the blu-ray would pick up the sequential suffix numbers.

Since asking for this advice I have realised that I overcame the problem a couple of years ago by inserting a prefix from 001 upwards. It just means that I have to alter every filename individually, but not really a problem for a small number of photos.

Thanks for your help.

[grahamlthompson]

[quote=alycidon;59344350. It just means that I have to alter every filename individually, but not really a problem for a small number of photos.

Thanks for your help.[/QUOTE]

There are lots of free batch file renaming programmes that will do the job for hundreds of files in seconds.

I use this one (there are loads of others)

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/...-Renamer.shtml

[jesterminute]

When I want to re-number a downloaded SDcard full of photos (say 999 pictures) I do it in blocks as follows.

Select the first nine files and then right-click the first file and rename it with the prefix: 0001(1) this results in all nine files being renamed sequentially as follows: 0001(1), 0001(2), 0001(3) up to 0001(9) you may add a group title at the same time if you wish.

Then select all files 10 to 99, right-click the first one (no. 10) and rename it: 001(10) + your group title; these should be then be sequentially numbered 001(10) through to 001(99).

Then select files 100 up to 999 and rename these as follows: 01(100).

This should maintain photo sequence on TV playback.

Hope this is helpful.

[alycidon]

Thank you for that, jesterminute [your first post]!

That is really helpful and will short-circuit my usual method of numbering each file individually.

Since posting my initial request for help, I realised that I have in the past sequentially numbered the files to show through the TV.

It's so annoying when they come out in haphazard order.

Thank you again, and welcome to the forums.