Re: How to sort albums by name?
Maik Qualmann <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:01:48 +0200
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Menu-> View-> Sort Albums-> By Folder. Click the album tree header to change the sort order. Maik Am Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2026, 20:32:10 Mitteleurop=C3=A4ische Sommerzeit schr= ieb=20 James Orr: > I've noticed that in versions 9.0 and 9.1 that I have trouble sorting alb= ums > by name. =20 > This is strange, because it used to work well. I've checked the > documentation, and the process described there to invert the display order > no longer seems to work for me. =20 > What is most irritating to me is that it makes it much more difficult to > work on a project relating to World War 2, which has more than 60 folders > and 1350 files. The base data are scans made over the past ten years of > archived prints and negatives from my family's history. =20 > The folders are structured in a tree with YYYY MM DD description. > Sub-folders are similarly named with Developed v1 and Developed v2 append= ed > to the description. What I want is easily to locate images within each > group. =20 > I thought I could force the issue by individually changing the album date > from the creation date to the earliest date of the folder name. This > improved the situation a bit. However, what I got was 1941, then 1945 with > months ascending, then 1944 with months ascending, then 1943 and 1942. =20 > This seems strange to me. >=20 > I wonder what I need to do to get the album display to look and act more > like Windows Explorer, which does what I want and expect. =20 > -- >=20 > James M. Orr > 2705 E Sussex Way > Fresno CA 93726 >=20 > ________________________________ >=20 > 48 >=20 > This restless mind that looks for happiness > tells you a hundred times a day that you > should pause a while--and realize you're not > a lily that is plucked, then blooms again. >=20 > The Rub=C3=A1iy=C3=A1t of Omar Khayyam=E2=80=93 Juan Cole (trans) 2020 >=20 >=20 >=20 > This email has been checked as free of malicious content. > If you want me to permanently stop sending you emails, > please reply with STOP SENDING ME EMAILS in the subject line