Can't organize my floppy's to burn them to a disc

16 years ago

I downloaded my 250 picture floppy's onto my hard drive a few weeks ago. I downloaded them one by one and they were all in the order of date taken when I downloaded them into my pictures folder.

Now that I'm ready to burn them they are all in alphabetical order and won't change even when I go to view/date taken or sort by date taken or stack by date taken. Don't know how they got in alphabetical order in the first place. As I was downloading them they were each in their own folder in order they were taken but no longer like that.

How can I change them back to the way they were when I downloaded them?

I'm using Dell XP Studio 1737 laptop.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time and have a nice evening.

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owbist
16 years ago
Wow you were brave to copy all those floppies to the hard drive, good for you.

The simplest way would be to rename each by adding a number in front of the current name. Start with 001floppyname and so on, do not use just 1 or you will have 1,10,11,12 and you do not want that.
heidiho
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks so much for the help and also quick response.
Guess this project will keep me busy for the next several days.
Thanks again.
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owbist
16 years ago
You are most welcome, I just feel your pain having to go all through them again. At least you will not have to wait while each floppy loads this time.

It might be adviseable to create 5 sub folders and split 50 into each to make your task a little easier. They can all be copied back to one directory once the task is complete.

Perhaps you already know but you can open 2 instances of Windows Explorer and have them side by side if you have a reasonably good sized monitor even if they overlap a little. Then you can drag them to folders a little easier perhaps.
heidiho
Original Author
16 years ago
I didn't think about dragging them. I'm not too computer smart but it shouldn't be too hard just to put 2 windows side by side and drag them; so this is good advice.
You really have been a great help. I'll do as you suggested.
Have a nice day..
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
16 years ago
have you tried going to the area you have your pictures stored in their folders, and up top click on view then arrange icons by and select picture taken on.

You should be able to choose how to sort them also you may have the properties locked down you may need to change permissions. Sometimes it is read only or set some way that will not allow change with out changing settings.

also when you open one of the folders you should be able to go to view> choose details and select in that list what you want in the info including date picture taken and use the move up and move down arrows to move it to the top so it will know to use that info first, be sure to click ok at the bottom.
rbmawby
16 years ago
Some "photo organizers" put photos into a second directory without touching the original file in the location you first placed it. Have a look - search for a name(s) you remember and you will probably find your photos in the original location where you copied them.

If this is the case and you want to know more I can help.

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