Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 22:09:03 +1200, Eric Stevens
wrote:

Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?
I have had similar problems with other software. It seems to be a
Windows thing.

I use ViewNX2 which came with a Nikon camera. It seems to work with
any picture or movie format. If I set it off searching all the C:
drive it finds hundreds of pictures. It displays them in the date
order. If I move the files around, select or edit them with Paint it
still displays in the same order as before so I get confused.

Steve

I think the utilities that are doing a good job of this,
are selecting a "sort" operator in some system call.
And that's why they're in order.

Utilities which do a "bare minimum of lifting" seem
to have a more random orientation. And from a
directory traversal point of view, I don't understand
how the "answer" can come up different on each run.

Paul