Comments on: Picasa Tip: Keeping Pictures in Order

By: Debbi

Debbi — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:15:03 +0000

My pictures WERE all numbered in order by my camera, all taken on the same date. I start with the first picture, but after that Picasa slideshow goes to the LAST slide and then backwards from there. I renumbered them all to be sure they were in the order I wanted (original order taken) but Picasa still does this odd behavior. Windows plays them correctly. They are ordered on date, using the detail view in Windows Explorer. What am I doing wrong? This is pretty frustrating.
thanks

By: Carole

Carole — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:36:30 +0000

We have taken photos on 2 cameras during a long holiday. I have put them on the computer and sorted by date taken. However they will not hold this order when transferred to disc or to another file. Do I have to rename each photo (over 1000).
Regards Carole

By: Marianne

Marianne — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:15:05 +0000

I have a very large number of photos I’d like to put into a slideshow–about 250. The problem is, I want to name the photos by what they show, not just trip 1, trip 2, etc. I guess an alternative is to name each photo trip 1 and then a description (i.e. ‘trip 1 Eiffel Tower, trip 2 Versailles)–but would I have to do this manually? Is there another way?

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:21:35 +0000

No I did not delete your question – I just hadn’t gotten around to approving it yet. I was teaching 4 seminars yesterday when you posted your message.
I also can’t tell you that ‘we’re working on it’ because I don’t work for Google. I am just a computer teacher who happens to like Picasa a lot and have developed it as a specialty of mine.
As for your sorting issue, is it possible you have Picasa’s folder sort set to ‘by date’? You need to have it set to ‘by name’ in order for it to be alphabetical.
As for the video playing, thanks for giving me the heads up. I have no idea what was wrong = but I couldn’t get it to play either, so I reposted it. Should be working now, but just in case, I will also upload it to our Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/2geeksontour#g/u

By: Richard Dettwyler

Richard Dettwyler — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:23:37 +0000

You deleted my question? What’s the point of this if you are going to cherry pick the questions that you can answer. Couldn’t you have said something, like “it’s a bug and we’re working on it” or “PEBKAC” or anything? Picasa doesn’t sort pictures in the window by NAME and I have the window to show you, should anyone ask for it. I may have to pay for Windows but at least it sorts by name.

By: Richard Dettwyler

Richard Dettwyler — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:46:21 +0000

I have named my pictures before importing into Picasa. They are hair1.jpg hair2.jpg etc. party1.jpg party2.jpg etc salon1.jpg salon2.jpg etc. Picasa orders them arbitrarily. They appear as hair2, hair3, party1, hair6, hair7, salon2 … Finally, your video does not appear on the page, in any browser. Please assist. Thanks. Rick

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:15:07 +0000

I’m not understanding the above comment. How should I name the photos? I’m a grandmother and not a computer tec person so I need it more detailed so I can figure it out. Thank you.

By: Chris Guld

Chris Guld — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:28:11 +0000

When you move pictures to a new folder – they will sort with the contents of that folder. So, it depends on how you named the other pictures.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:06:06 +0000

If photos are dragged from one folder to another folder and you then do as suggested on the video will it still keep the order?

How do you go from one folder to the next and keep the correct order. I assume you need to make sure you don’t start with a number or letter that has already been used. Correct?

Also, some photos were scanned using MP Navigator (Jpeg) and are stored in the MP Navegator folder but they are in Picasa. Will they be part of the correct order if they are stored in a different folder from the rest of the photos?

By: DVD of Pictures that Plays on your TV | Picasa Tutorials

DVD of Pictures that Plays on your TV | Picasa Tutorials — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:36:14 +0000

[...] Realize that this is using the picture files on disk, they won’t include your Picasa edits unless you saved those edits to disk. My preferred method is to Export all the photos to a new Folder, then it’s easy to select all pictures from that folder. They also won’t be in your custom order, they will be in the order that they are on your disk. See the article on keeping your pictures sorted. [...]