Software for setting the order of photos in digital photo frame

[spideyontheweb]

hi
I wondered whether anyone could help me out.I am a bit frustrated at the inability of digital photo frames to keep the order of photos I suggest(sorting my son's photos for our memory🙂!!).I understand it's an universal problem and difficult to sort out.I have looked at various ways including using picassa to rename the whole files,etc (http://picasatutorials.com/2009/05/picasa-tip-keeping-pictures-in-order/
Anyone have any experience with something called DPF Manager (http://www.dpfmanager.co.uk/ ?
It seems to keep crashing with error messages at least for me to even try it out:\.
Any other smart solutions to make sure I can set photos on the frame to go in a set order and not just based on their original digital footprints.
Many thanks
simon

 

[Soundmanred]

Alphanumerical ordering.

 

[spideyontheweb]

hi
I have tried changing the numbers,file names,etc.
Since the photo files I have are less than 20 , (each having about 2-300 photos)I have tried the alphabetical order;I have named each file as A 000, A001,etc and the next B000,B001,B0002 and so on.But the frame still mixes up the order so much so that my boy is one-year old in one and then just about to enter university in the next!
Am I missing something? Would you care to elaborate...apologies for being dense about this and have you tried it out?
regards

 

[Dahak]

Does the photo frame have some sort of manual to suggest how to order the photos?
I would have thought that alphanumerical ordering would be standard, unless the frame looks at folders first then files.

may have to take a small sample and try out having all photos in one folder and do alphanumerical ordering vs separate folders

 

[corkyg]

Dahak asks a good question. Are all digi-frames alike? I don't think so. What brand and model are you using.

 

[Fardringle]

Most frames I have seen have the option to move sequentially through photos (i.e. numerical/alphabetic order) or randomly. It sounds like yours is on the random setting.

 

[CuriousMike]

Perhaps its "order" is by timestamp / date of photo.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Perhaps its "order" is by timestamp / date of photo.

Totally possible. My dad has an old photo frame that, after some investigation, I figured out sorted files within a folder by their creation date (not the exif tag).

 

[Leros]

I had an mp3 cd player that would order by the same order that you put files in the folder. I guess that would be creation date.