![]() You might want to keep your photos on a separate drive either so you don't fill up the C: drive, or to keep them separate. This will allow you to use Picasa to move those photos to the folders you want them in, rather than having to use Windows Explorer. Many people routinely copy photos from the web or Emails to the Desktop, so the Desktop could be set to show in Picasa. If you don't want to include all subfolders in Documents, you might still want to see photos in a few subfolders, so you could set up to watch just those folders. ![]() The My Documents folder is often included if you sometimes create documents that have photos associated. Save the metadata to the files and upload to Google Photos.Determine where your Photos are stored on your computerĪlmost everyone should include the My Pictures folder because even if you don't keep all your photos there, many Windows programs save pictures there. Lightroom: Select multiple photos, then update the Date Taken field. Use for example if you need to rename first (for example get date/time from file name) Set a time to give all selected photos the same date/timeĪlso check "Add additional n seconds per file for every subsequent (selected) file" Go to File > JPG Lossless Operations < Change Exif date (date taken) Select multiple thumbnails (using Ctrl+A for all or hold Ctrl and Shift keys and click as usual) If not you can drag selected photos to the place you want. The photos are sorted by name, for example as renamed in Picasa. Open Irfanview and hit T to show Thumbnails view and find the folder you need. For example for scanned or downloaded photos you can add a "date taken" in Picasa first. Warning: does not work when there are not already EXIF data. All this can be done in batch.Ĭan be used for giving all photos the same date/time, adjust the time with a given amount, or also add n seconds to each subsequent photo. You thus have to give the photos again the original time. That may be easier when I upload them to a separate album.īut by changing the timezone it also changes the time so that the order is still not correct. I therefore :Ĭorrect the timezone for the photos uploaded from Picasa in Google Photos. However, when photos from other sources are added to the same album you may still have problems, because these photos may have another time zone, and Google Photos sorts taking into account the timezone. You can avoid this by adding the same amount (for example 1 second) to ALL photos in an album. To change date/time you can for example use :Ĭhoose "Adjust all photos dates by the amount" or "Set all photos to the same date and time"Ĭhanging date/time in Picasa sets time zone to GMT+00, which may again lead to incorrect sorting in Google Photos. Other programs like Window's File Explorer can be used to rename the files and thus change the order, but File Explorer does not seem to allow dragging the photos in another position. Works fine for finished albums, but not for albums where photos are added later. It adds 01- 02- or -001 -002 (if >99) at the beginning of the actual filename. ![]() When exporting photos there is an option to "add numbers to file name to preserve order". All photos will be renamed NAME-001 NAME-002 etc When you add photos to an album where the last photo is NAME-050 then you can enter NAME-051. You can also rename subgroups, but then you will have to choose names that preserve the correct order.Įnter a name followed by -001. Select all photos (or none, which also selects all). See here.ĭrag & drop one or more selected photos to another position. Remark: Picasa can still be downloaded and installed. S orting by file name in an album has never been implemented, in spite of many requests, and in spite of the fact that this is a very basic feature which is very easy to add.Īlthough Google Photos does NOT support sorting by filename, it is recommended in order to preserve the order when someone downloads the album. Manual dragging and date/time changed in Google Photos get lost when an album is downloaded. Now sorting in an album (and keep the order when you download) is a real pain. In Picasa Web Albums we could sort by file name. In the past that was easy: we could drag the photos in the order we wanted in Picasa, and rename them with Name-001, Name-002 etc. ![]() ![]() They often also want to add these photos to an album in a given order, to tell a story. Some users still upload photos, taken with a better digital camera, from a computer. This order gets however lost when an album is downloaded, or when you share it and the invitee adds the photos to a new album. "Recently added", for example useful to remove wrongly added photosĭragging photos in the order you want. "Newest first" for example for sharing family photos: they see the newly added first "Oldest first" for example to tell a story Photos are sorted in the Photos tab according to "Date taken" (when available). ![]()
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