icon arrangement on cd

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Hi. I have an antique business. Save a lot of photos on
CD's to upload to website. I arrange the icons on the cd
according to particular pieces of furniture, etc. and
there doesn't seem to be anyway for me to save this icon
positioning. Does anyone know how I can do this rather
than by sorting in the four methods that are provided???
Thank you.
 
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Hi. I have an antique business. Save a lot of photos on
CD's to upload to website. I arrange the icons on the cd
according to particular pieces of furniture, etc. and
there doesn't seem to be anyway for me to save this icon
positioning. Does anyone know how I can do this rather
than by sorting in the four methods that are provided???
Thank you.
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Files are sorted (listed) by numerical/alphabetical order.
After you arrange your thumbnails in the order you want, you can view them,
play a slide show etc. and they will be displayed in the order you have
them. However, if you close the folder and open it again, the original order
comes back, according to the numerical/alphabetical order of your file
names.
This being said, the only way to keep your new thumbnail order is to rename
the files, using a naming system so that after renaming, the files will be
listed in the order you want. The simplest way is to add numbers in front of
you file name. This can be tedious if you have many files and you want each
file to have a unique name.
Supposed you have three files with unique names:
High chair.jpg
Sofa bed.jpg
Tulip stand.jpg
and you want sofa bed to be the last file, you would then place the
thumbails in order and rename each file:
001 High chair.jpg
002 Tulip stand.jpg
003 Sofa bed.jpg
and now the order is controlled by the number in front.

However, if you are willing to accept the same name for a group of files,
you can batch rename a group using a number in front and it would look like
this:
001 Chair collection.jpg
002 Chair collection.jpg
or you can rename
Chair collection 001.jpg
Chair collection 002.jpg
etc.
You can do this with free software from:
www.irfanview.com
After you download and install it, click on Help and Rename in the index and
read the explanations. This software will rename a group of files
automatically with numbers in front or at the end and will let you sort the
files in the order you want before renaming. It will not remove your
original names, it will simply add new names for the same files in your
folder. You can them upload them to the web.
A good idea is to make a new folder on your hard drive and copy some photo
files there. Then practice the renaming with no danger to your original
files.
This software will also give you the option to rename "the XP way" which is
to add a number in parenthesis at the end of the file name:
Chair collection (1).jpg
Chair collection (2).jpg
This is not what you want for the web. You simply want numbers in front or
at the end, no parenthesis, so that any server will accept the files and
list them properly.
 
Thank you so very much!!! I did find that it would not accept numbers, but
would the letters (without the new software that you mentioned). You saved
me hours!!!!!
 
Yves - thank you so very much!!!

yves alarie said:
Files are sorted (listed) by numerical/alphabetical order.
After you arrange your thumbnails in the order you want, you can view them,
play a slide show etc. and they will be displayed in the order you have
them. However, if you close the folder and open it again, the original order
comes back, according to the numerical/alphabetical order of your file
names.
This being said, the only way to keep your new thumbnail order is to rename
the files, using a naming system so that after renaming, the files will be
listed in the order you want. The simplest way is to add numbers in front of
you file name. This can be tedious if you have many files and you want each
file to have a unique name.
Supposed you have three files with unique names:
High chair.jpg
Sofa bed.jpg
Tulip stand.jpg
and you want sofa bed to be the last file, you would then place the
thumbails in order and rename each file:
001 High chair.jpg
002 Tulip stand.jpg
003 Sofa bed.jpg
and now the order is controlled by the number in front.

However, if you are willing to accept the same name for a group of files,
you can batch rename a group using a number in front and it would look like
this:
001 Chair collection.jpg
002 Chair collection.jpg
or you can rename
Chair collection 001.jpg
Chair collection 002.jpg
etc.
You can do this with free software from:
www.irfanview.com
After you download and install it, click on Help and Rename in the index and
read the explanations. This software will rename a group of files
automatically with numbers in front or at the end and will let you sort the
files in the order you want before renaming. It will not remove your
original names, it will simply add new names for the same files in your
folder. You can them upload them to the web.
A good idea is to make a new folder on your hard drive and copy some photo
files there. Then practice the renaming with no danger to your original
files.
This software will also give you the option to rename "the XP way" which is
to add a number in parenthesis at the end of the file name:
Chair collection (1).jpg
Chair collection (2).jpg
This is not what you want for the web. You simply want numbers in front or
at the end, no parenthesis, so that any server will accept the files and
list them properly.
Click to expand...
 
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