Picasa doesn't sort my photos correctly

[Peter Gaultney]

I have a folder on my hard drive which contains over 2000 images - all
from a trip to New Zealand. Whether "by Name" or "by Creation Date",
Picasa sorts them incorrectly. In my case, it seems to split them up
into 3 groups, and within each group, they're sorted correctly. Each
group contains a subset of the photos which ranges all the way from
the beginning of the trip to the end, which means that if I want to
find a picture from one part of the trip, I have to scroll through and
look in all three places.

This makes Picasa incredibly unuseful. By contrast, Nautilus (the
file manager) sorts them just fine by Creation date and by name
(either of which would work, since they have generic, numbered file
names). Of course, Nautilus has limits to its thumbnailing ability,
so I'd much rather use Picasa. But having to look in three places
gets really tedious.

Any ideas? Is this just a bug?

[dank]

On Apr 24, 1:03 pm, Peter Gaultney <petergault...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a folder on my hard drive which contains over 2000 images - all
> from a trip to New Zealand. Whether "by Name" or "by Creation Date",
> Picasa sorts them incorrectly. In my case, it seems to split them up
> into 3 groups, and within each group, they're sorted correctly. Each
> group contains a subset of the photos which ranges all the way from
> the beginning of the trip to the end, which means that if I want to
> find a picture from one part of the trip, I have to scroll through and
> look in all three places.
>
> This makes Picasa incredibly unuseful.

Can you create a test directory with just, say, six images in it
that shows the problem? If so, tar it up and send it to us...
- Dan