Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

In the old days, things were not nearly as complex and functional as
it is nowadays. Stop concentrating on trivial things, there is too
much important stuff to do.









Peter Jason wrote:

I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

Peter Jason wrote:
I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

The capability broke a while back.

The script on this page, the comments say the script originated in
the Win7 era.

"Disable Auto Arrange in Folders"

https://windowsreport.com/disable-au.../#.XCXE_qUwDQw

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

"This tutorial no longer works starting with
the Windows 10 Creators Update version 1703"

The script on Tenforums seems very similar in construction
to the other one.

*******

Once somebody redesigns the menu so it no longer
looks like this, it's a hint to you that you are not
going to get what you want. See if your menu even
has an "Auto Arrange" entry. Once the menu item disappears,
perhaps it also implies changes to the underlying
registry storage. Why even leave hooks in the Registry,
if the GUI code doesn't use it ?

https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/...to-arrange.png

The ShellBags/Bags concept was pretty broken and un-scalable
back in the WinXP era, so is a prime candidate for one
of those 7000 designers to "change", not "fix".

Maybe when they open-source the OS, we can fix this.
drums fingers on computer desk, waiting for this to happen...
still drumming... still drumming...

Paul

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of the
names. 001 002 003 etc.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

"Paul" wrote

| The capability broke a while back.
|
I couldn't get either of your links to work. The second
was blank. The other just didn't work. Maybe they want
script. In any case, there used to be an obscure setting
in XP, under Bags...Shell, by folder. I don't remember
what it was. And I don't know if it worked in later systems.
I do know that I have some XP folders that auto-arrange
and some that don't. And some only arrange if the window
is not open. But it's hard to track down the difference in
Registry settings because it's hard to look up which Bags
number represents which folder path.

Another complication is that customizing via the Registry
only works for AllFolders in Win7. And they've had several
chances since then to mess it up further.

So someone who's curious could try to find that
setting, try to set it for all folders, and hope for the best.
But even after all that it might not work, and if it does
it will probably work only as an all-or-nothing tweak.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On 12/27/2018 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I assume you want to arrange the images to groups so you can batch
correct the images for some property.

When faced with something similar I used folders. I had batch copied a
several hundred photos on a flat bed scanner. and then cropped each
picture from the batch sheet. I set up three subfolders.
One for the copies of the original cropped pictures images ,
one for the cropped pictures
and one for the processed batch sheets batch sheets images.

I copied all of images to be processed to the folder for original images

As I processed each picture in the images processing program. I saved
it to the default save directory which I made the cropped pictures folder.

When finished with a batch sheet I moved it to the processed folder.

This aloud me to walk a way and come back later to know exactly where I
had left off.


If you plan on doing batch process on groups of pictures, I would do
something similar. I would make a folder for each type of correction
and move the picture require a correction to the appropriate folder.
One folder for color correction, one for rotation, etc





--
2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

Big Al wrote in :

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of the
names. 001 002 003 etc.



I too have had to resort to that solution. Just try to put enough zeros in
to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go back through
and add them after the fact.

I know you said the slides are dark, but have you tried a lighted slide
viewer? In these days of digital photos, one might be hard to find, but it
beats holding each slide up to the light or in front of a light to see what
it is.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:57:58 GMT, Tim wrote:

Big Al wrote in :

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of the
names. 001 002 003 etc.

I too have had to resort to that solution. Just try to put enough zeros in
to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go back through
and add them after the fact.

Let the computer do the hard work. Use a free program like Bulk Rename
Utility to manipulate the filenames.
https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

If you can think of a requirement for renaming a group of files, BRU can
very likely handle it with ease.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

Char Jackson wrote in
:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:57:58 GMT, Tim wrote:

Big Al wrote in :

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of
the names. 001 002 003 etc.

I too have had to resort to that solution. Just try to put enough
zeros in to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go
back through and add them after the fact.

Let the computer do the hard work. Use a free program like Bulk Rename
Utility to manipulate the filenames.
https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

If you can think of a requirement for renaming a group of files, BRU
can very likely handle it with ease.


Part of the problem is that the OP wants to arrange the slides in some
order other than that they were scanned in. That means looking at each
slide and determining where it goes in the sequence. I think that would
be hard to do in a batch file.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 21:49:16 GMT, Tim wrote:

Char Jackson wrote in
:

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:57:58 GMT, Tim wrote:

Big Al wrote in :

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of
the names. 001 002 003 etc.

I too have had to resort to that solution. Just try to put enough
zeros in to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go
back through and add them after the fact.

Let the computer do the hard work. Use a free program like Bulk Rename
Utility to manipulate the filenames.
https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

If you can think of a requirement for renaming a group of files, BRU
can very likely handle it with ease.


Part of the problem is that the OP wants to arrange the slides in some
order other than that they were scanned in. That means looking at each
slide and determining where it goes in the sequence. I think that would
be hard to do in a batch file.

Perhaps, but I was specifically referring to this part:
just try to put enough
zeros in to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go
back through and add them after the fact.

BRU can do that in a few seconds.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:27:49 +1100, Peter Jason
wrote:

I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter


Thanks for all replies. I was presented with a box
of random loose color slides at Xmas dinner, all
from the 1950s - 1970s, most without numbers or
markings, all dark but still in good condition.
All require extensive PShopping. I'll take the
suggestion to group like images in separate
folders. (Win10 emulated the scanner to WinXP3rd
upgrade.)

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:57:58 -0000, Tim wrote:

Big Al wrote in :

On 12/27/18 10:27 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

I've resorted to the brute force method: Put numbers in front of the
names. 001 002 003 etc.



I too have had to resort to that solution. Just try to put enough zeros in
to handle any future growth. It is a real pain to have to go back through
and add them after the fact.

Sometimes (50% chance) you can bulk rename in Windows. Select say 100 files, then type in a name "France". They will all get called France 1, France 2, etc.
Sometimes a command prompt can do something similar, using asterisks. Like "ren France*.jpg Germany*.jpg"

I know you said the slides are dark, but have you tried a lighted slide
viewer? In these days of digital photos, one might be hard to find, but it
beats holding each slide up to the light or in front of a light to see what
it is.

Used to have one of those as a kid. My parents probably still have it. Operated with 3 (or 4) C cells. The 4th cell was switched in when you wanted it brighter. This made the cells end up with different charge levels and leakage occurred!

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

In article , Peter Jason
wrote:


Thanks for all replies. I was presented with a box
of random loose color slides at Xmas dinner, all
from the 1950s - 1970s, most without numbers or
markings, all dark but still in good condition.
All require extensive PShopping. I'll take the
suggestion to group like images in separate
folders. (Win10 emulated the scanner to WinXP3rd
upgrade.)

you should be using adobe lightroom for that task, which not only can
make adjustments to the photos, either for one or in batches, but it
can also create multiple collections with selected photos in whatever
order you want, all without needing to rename anything, move files
around, etc.

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

On 12/28/2018 7:09 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , Peter Jason
wrote:


Thanks for all replies. I was presented with a box
of random loose color slides at Xmas dinner, all
from the 1950s - 1970s, most without numbers or
markings, all dark but still in good condition.
All require extensive PShopping. I'll take the
suggestion to group like images in separate
folders. (Win10 emulated the scanner to WinXP3rd
upgrade.)

you should be using adobe lightroom for that task, which not only can
make adjustments to the photos, either for one or in batches, but it
can also create multiple collections with selected photos in whatever
order you want, all without needing to rename anything, move files
around, etc.

Another good image program is Irfanview. It can handle most common
image processing task such as crop, color adjustment, gamma corrections,
etc.

The nice thing is that if you want to make a similar adjustment to to
several images all of the color adjustments can be processed in a batch
and saved in a separate folder.

While I have not done it yet, this year because of camera adjustments
some of the images came out a little dark. Since it was a camera
setting that caused the problem I will select the dark ones and do a
batch lightening of them.

One caution; while it seems that there should be an algorithm that would
restore Kodachrome or Kodacolor back to their original colors. I had a
time to get some poor corrected images.







--
2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre

Manually arrainging Thumbnails in File Explorer.
 

"Peter Jason" wrote in message
...

I am scanning a whole series of old color slides
with a Minolta Dimage II scanner.

These are all dark and cannot be sorted before
they go into the scanner.

Therefore I need to manually rearrange the then
adjusted slides into order.

How can one arrange the thumbnails in File
Explorer like in the old days. There is no
"autoarrange" to switch off in the latest
Windows10?
Peter

Light table:

https://www.amazon.com/slp/light-table/ydbm9spykrj86zx
https://goo.gl/wuZXvq