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Question Weird issue when scrolling numbered images (W10)

Charlie98

Charlie98

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This may sound like a trivial problem... but it's not.

For my business, I save images in a standard date convention... for example... 200601 (1), 200601 (2), etc (that is, YYMMDD, and the image number.) When I rectify my accounts, I have to scroll back through those images... in order... as I go through my accounts. It never used to be a problem... I open (1), and side arrow through the images... and they opened in order... (2), (3), (4), etc. Not now.

Say I have 25 images... now I will open (1), and then side arrow... it goes to (10) instead of (2.) It never used to do this.

Is there some setting I've borked in there, somewhere? Or is my file naming all of a sudden gone wrong? What am I missing?
 
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The viewer is probably selecting the next file to be displayed based upon the file sort order applied to the folder containing the files. It has probably been inadvertently changed to something else other than what it used to be at some point.

Close your viewer. Go to Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder containing the files, and right click somewhere on the page. Under the "Sort by" settings in the pop-up menu, Make sure the options are chosen to sort by Name and Ascending. Then, try to reopen the viewer and see if it selects the next file properly.

If it works, you shouldn't have to do it again as Windows should remember to apply this setting in the future to that folder.
 
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File names with number in them actually are text strings, not numbers.

In text string sorting where character at the same position from left are compared. So "1" at position 15 is always less than "2" at position 15, regardless what's behind it.

To order file name properly change "(1)" to "(01)" in file name.
 
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Steltek said:
Close your viewer. Go to Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder containing the files, and right click somewhere on the page. Under the "Sort by" settings in the pop-up menu, Make sure the options are chosen to sort by Name and Ascending. Then, try to reopen the viewer and see if it selects the next file properly.
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No, that's set correctly. The individual files display correctly... that is 1, 2, 3, etc, not 1, 10, 11, etc.


mxnerd said:
In text string sorting where character at the same position from left are compared. So "1" at position 15 is always less than "2" at position 15, regardless what's behind it.
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This is new to me. I know what you are saying... I had to go in and change my numbering convention for my video and music files (that was a cluster.... in some cases I had to do 3 digits...) but I've never had a problem until now scrolling through images numbered without a '0' in front. But I think you are correct... 🙁
 
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