manual file sorting in Windows 7

[robnor1]

How to Disable Auto Arrange in Folders in Windows 7? - The Winhelponline Blog

Windows Explorer Auto Arrange - Disable - Windows 7 Forums

Thanks. Ive tried those fixes. It does not work. All Microsoft would have to do is put an on/off button for auto arrange. I have heard they did not address this in Win 8 either.

 

[The_Traveler]

To be honest Rob, you are trying to do something with a tool that isn't made for it.
You were lucky in XP.
If you can use a text listing and don't need thumbnails, you can use Irfanview in slide show mode to resort them and then make a slideshow from that.

Or at Alex Fauland's easy to use tools and utilities you can use A.F.5 to sort and rename in sequence, better than Irfanview in that you then have a stable bunch of files but still no preview.
I've used both and they work fine - and free.

Or you can break down and buy something that will work, thumbnails, sort, rename, the entire thing.

 

[MLeeK]

So, which versions of Photoshop and Lightroom do you have?

If you don't already have it for ready reference, you might want to get - The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers

I have PS CS3. Dont have LR. The problem I see with both of these is the ability to have both camera folders up at the same time and drag the images I want from camera 1 folder to exactly the position I want in the camera 2 folder. I want to be able to merge a cake picture in camera 1 folder in to a series of cake pictures in camera 2 folder. With the little I have read on LR and Bridge it looks like you can only arrange the photos after all your images are in one folder. Not sure though.

I'd try using a collection to do this. YOu can put the images from folder 1 and folder 2 into one collection and then change the way that collection is sorted. It doesn't MOVE the images, but shows them all together as if they were.