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You can use the "Auto sort" option in customize gallery, or you can use one of the photo tools to do a manual quick sort by filename. Regardless, the way you number your files before you add them to SmugMug is important.
Computers sort by looking at the first character/digit, then the second, then the third, etc. They don't see a three digit number as a whole.
Example: IMG_100.jpg will be before IMG_23.jpg . The computer sees that 1 comes before 2 and then stops (rather than seeing that 23 comes before 100).
So when you name files on your computer, you might consider doing it like this: 00001.jpg 00002.jpg .... 00010.jpg ....000123.jpg , etc.
In the example, above: IMG_023.jpg will be before IMG_100.jpg because the system will recognize that 0 comes before 1 .
Arrange photos by date taken
Be sure to avoid the "Save for Web" option in programs like Photoshop, if you'd like to arrange photos by date taken. That option will strip the photo from all the extra info that is usually packaged with it. It'll reduce the file size, but you won't be able to easily arrange your photos by date.
Same here- have changed & rechanged my files & Numbers but still does not Auto arrange.
Posted by Anonymous at Apr 17, 2009 10:32
I'll chime in that Auto arrange is not working. It is also difficult to manually sort a photo from one page of thumbnails to another.
Posted by Anonymous at Apr 21, 2009 06:41
Yeah. Auto arrange just doesn't work - at least not by the two ways that I want to do it, by date taken or by file name.
Posted by Anonymous at Jul 19, 2009 13:10
For my first 2 galleries I used filename numbering so that it comes in the required order into the gallery after uploading. I had therefore to keep auto sort set on filename with ascending number. After a little while I wanted to change the order of a few photos. Then I realized it had trapped me into complete inability to rearrange anything. When I set Auto Sort to None, my photos where badly reshuffled and I had to painstakingly rearrange almost all one by one. When I left Auto Sort to Filename, any local rearranging I did after checking 'arrange mode' was lost as soon as I browsed through gallery pages, without getting any warning I would loose my time.
Really, rearranging photos is a poor (or nut-) case on SmugMug. They must fix this urgently. I suggest implementing an extra option for Auto Sort : None But Keep Image Order As Is Now. That should not be very difficult to do for the programmers.
Posted by Anonymous at Jul 19, 2009 14:34
That is an excellent idea. Another option (which would work well for me) is to sort them by date and time. I takes lots of "trip" pictures and I always organize them that way.
Posted by Anonymous at Aug 01, 2009 15:15
I agree 100%.
This is the issue I came across.
Posted by Anonymous at Aug 23, 2009 13:10
i have not found any way to just drag the album thumbnail to manually reset the order. all i can find is a bunch of arrows to click and move for the albums. its horid. does anyone know a way to drag? Im just getting started with this as im moving 20,000 files over from phanfare
Posted by Anonymous at Aug 28, 2009 08:16
Select the Style for a gallery as All Thumbs, then click the "arrange" box at the top left of the thumbnails. Then you should be able to drag images into the order you want. Works for me.
Posted by Anonymous at Sep 06, 2009 14:36
The sorting feature is terrible. It basically doesn't work. Why isn't there a select all? Why is the only option "reverse" why doesn't it pay attention to the numbers in the file names. The file name sort is either broken or very convoluted in the way it sorts. This is EXTREMELY frustrating. Also, I arranged all the photos manually. Then I couldn't find the save button and lost all my work. This thing is really bad
Posted by Anonymous at Sep 08, 2009 23:40
Yep...have arranged over and over to no avail...does not work.
Posted by Anonymous at Sep 15, 2009 06:39
I keep trying to arrange the photo by AUTO-ARRANGE. So Far it isnt working- I keep reading the tips and trying. Hope I get It.wounded
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