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Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?
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September 19th 18, 05:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?
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On 18 Sep 2018 21:52:37 GMT, Paul wrote:
I did a quick check here with the in-box "Paint",
selected just four files...
and they don't show up in a consistent order.
Thanks for confirming that the files don't show up in the desired order in
your tests, which, helpfully, knocks out a lot of variables (like is it
only Paint.NET - which it's not).
Even if I physically select the files, one by one, holding down the control
key, they _still_ show up in variable order.
The files in this particular case were nine screenshots, but my experience
over the years is that it doesn't matter what files I open as a group.
Long ago I tried to set the time stamps, and the file names, but in all
cases, the files shows up in a capricious order.
There _must_ be a reason for this.
Hence, there must be a simple solution.
But what?
First I tried disabling Windows Defender realtime protection,
That's a good test, but I'm not using any antivirus that I can remember.
I had malwarebytes but it expired a while ago.
(Maybe it's mad at me for not paying.)
If you want consistency, you might have to batch process
things.
I prefer to figure out, somehow, WHY the file order is capricious.
Once we know why, we can figure out how to solve it.
Unless the program has a macro recorder, and you're using a macro,
opening 400 windows one at a time, and mousing the image to death,
is nuts.
Actually, I misspoke about the 400 files as those are the *test* files.
They're all the same file which were created in batch by Irfanview.
I often edit a series of a dozen or more files since, like you Paul, I like
to prove that I always speak facts - where a screenshot is pretty good
proof of facts.
Too many times we get morons like nospam who just make everything up, where
they can never come up with a single screenshot of what they "say" they can
The same thing happens just copying/moving files or when using drag-n-
drop to drop a number of them on some program so they open. It's been
like that seems like forever and nothings ever been done about it.
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