(Options) SORTING OPTIONS

Sorting Folders List
Also, you may want to sort the Folders list in a specific way. You can choose between sorting by foldername or sorting by folder's creation date. You can click on the main menu's view menu. Then click on the "Sort Folders List" menu item. OR, you can click on the green triangle right above the folders list.

Sorting Files List
There may be times when you need to sort the files list by something other than filename ascending (default). You can click on the main menu's view menu. Then click on the "Sort Files List" menu item. OR, you can click on the green triangle right above the files list. Or, you can bring up the Program Options Screen. All of these methods allow you to select a new sorting option. Below is a list of all the different sorting options.

This controls the order in which the files appears in the files list. You can sort using any of the following methods:

Random File Order: Sort the files in a jumbled up random order

Checkmarked Files To Front: Sort all the tagged files to the TOP of the list. The rest of the list remains unchanged

Checkmarked Files To End: Sort all the tagged files to the END of the list. The rest of the list remains unchanged

Filename Ascending: Sort the list upward by filename; ex: from A .. Z

Filename Descending: Sort the list downward by filename; ex: from Z .. A

File Extension Ascending: Sort the list upward by extension; ex: from *.bmp .. *.tiff

File Extension Descending: Sort the list downward by extension; ex: from *.tiff .. *.bmp

PARTial Filename Ascending: Sort the list upward by certain columns in the filenames: See note below!

PARTial Filename Descending: Sort the list downward by certain columns in the filenames: See note below!

File Date Ascending: Sort the files upward by date modified; ex: from 01/01/2001 .. 12/31/2005

File Date Descending: Sort the files downward by date modified; ex: from 12/31/2005 .. 012/01/2001

File Size Ascending: Sort the list upward by each file's size on disk; ex: from 128KB .. 900KB

File Size Descending: Sort the list downward by each file's size on disk; ex: from 900KB .. 128KB

Image Dimensions Ascending: Sort the list upward by the images resolution; ex: from 640x480 .. 1024x768

Image Dimensions Descending: Sort the list downward by the images resolution; ex: from 1024x768 .. 640x480

Camera EXIF Date Ascending: Sort the list upward by date/time photo was taken with camera; ex: from 01/01/2001 .. 12/31/2005

Camera EXIF Date Descending: Sort the list downward by date/time photo was taken with camera; ex: from 12/31/20005 .. 01/01/2001

Camera EXIF Make/Model Ascending: Sort the list upward by the Make & Model of the camera that took the photo.

Camera EXIF Make/Model Descending: Sort the list downward by the Make & Model of the camera that took the photo.

NOTE: If you sort by Extension or Checkmarked, then the previous order of filenames STAY intact, except they are GROUPED by Extension or Checkmarked. That way if you had sorted by Size, then by Extension, then the filenames will be grouped by Extension and within each Extension the filenames will still be ordered by file size.
Detailed explaination:

If you perform a sort that is NOT UNIQUE, then the "previous order will remain". For example: Let's say you sorted by filesize:

IMG_0001.jpg   1024KB
IMG_0003.jpg   1129KB
IMG_0006.bmp 1398KB
IMG_0004.bmp 1598KB
IMG_0007.bmp 1700KB
IMG_0005.jpg   1850KB
IMG_0002.bmp 2000KB

Then you sorted by something not completely unique (like extension). Your list would look like this:

IMG_0006.bmp 1398KB
IMG_0004.bmp 1598KB
IMG_0007.bmp 1700KB
IMG_0002.bmp 2000KB
IMG_0001.jpg   1024KB
IMG_0003.jpg   1129KB
IMG_0005.jpg   1850KB

See how each file did NOT have a unique extension. There were only 2 extensions (*.bmp, *.jpg). Therefore there are multiple files with the same extension grouped together. AND NOTICE that the file size within each extension grouping is STILL SORTED BY SIZE (previous order remains). Most other sorting utilities jumble it up again so that maybe the output would be like this:

IMG_0002.bmp 2000KB
IMG_0004.bmp 1598KB
IMG_0006.bmp 1398KB
IMG_0007.bmp 1700KB
IMG_0001.jpg   1024KB
IMG_0003.jpg   1129KB
IMG_0005.jpg   1850KB

See how the *.bmp files are grouped, but within the group, they are NOT sorted by size. Photo Jockey does not have this problem.

PARIAL FILENAME SORT:
When you sort by "PARTial Filename", you are given the chance to specifiy what section of the filename that you want to sort by. For example: Let's say your list looked like:

IMG_0001_Davie.jpg
IMG_0002_Davie.jpg
IMG_0003_Katherine.jpg
IMG_0004_Davie.jpg
IMG_0005_Davie.jpg
IMG_0006_Katherine.jpg

And let's say the name at the end of the filenames indicated "who" took the photo. Using normal sorting means, you could NEVER get all the photos Davie took grouped together :( That's why Partial Filename Sort is so unique. You can specify to sort on column 10 width of 5 and then poof, the list would look like this:

IMG_0001_Davie.jpg
IMG_0002_Davie.jpg
IMG_0004_Davie.jpg
IMG_0005_Davie.jpg
IMG_0003_Katherine.jpg
IMG_0006_Katherine.jpg

As you can see the photographer's names are now sorted :) Being able to specify where the column starts and the column's width is very useful.

CAMERA EXIF DATE SORT:When you select to sort by "Camera EXIF Date", all images need to be scanned to get the date/time the camera actually took the photo. If there is no EXIF camera date info in a file, then the standard modified file date is used instead. You can tell if the photo has the EXIF info by clicking on the main menu's "File" menu. Then click on "Properties" menu item. If you see the EXIF Info show up in the properties page, then that file has the needed date/time information. This is generally pretty quick. It can scan about 30 files per second. So a folder of 100 photos might take only 3 seconds. If you cancel the scanning, then a default sort of "Filename Ascending" will be used instead.

NOTE: When you select to sort by "Image Dimensions", then all of the images need to be scanned for resolution information. If you have hundreds of files in a folder, this could take a little time. If more than a couple of seconds are used to scan the image files, then a CANCEL SCANNING window pops up to allow you to cancel the scanning operation. If you cancel the scanning, then a default sort of "Filename Ascending" will be used instead.



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