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Old September 19th 18, 03:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Arlen Holder
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Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?

Knowing Microsoft orders files funny when you name then file1 or file01, I
named a bunch of screenshots ant001, ant002, ... ant009 using Irfanview
batch renaming commands.

In Windows file explorer, I selected the first file ant001:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=686...mbertest01.jpg

And then held down the shift key to select the last file, ant009, which
selects all nine files.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=890...mbertest02.jpg

I right click on any one of them to "Edit with Paint.NET":
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=700...mbertest03.jpg

But when Paint.NET comes up, they're in a seemingly capricious order.
ant008, ant005, ant003, ant006, ant009, ant004, ant002, and007, and001
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=731...mbertest04.jpg

This capricious ordering happens day in and day out, no matter what, which
makes sequential screenshot editing a pain for no good reason (AFAIK).

Since I wish to edit them in sequence to document an Android to iOS file
transfer, I have to manually reorder them within Paint.NET.

What trick am I missing for loading them into Paint.NET in correct order?

NOTE: It's not a big deal with 9 files, but try this set of 400!

Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?
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Old September 19th 18, 03:21 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Arlen Holder
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On 19 Sep 2018 02:15:03 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

NOTE: It's not a big deal with 9 files, but try this set of 400!

Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?


I forgot to screenshot the set of 400 files I wish to edit in order.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8140464numbertest05.jpg

It's a waste of time to have to reorder them in Paint.NET.

What is the trick to make Windows just open the files in the correct order?
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Old September 19th 18, 05:49 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 19 Sep 2018 02:21:14 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

What is the trick to make Windows just open the files in the correct order?


I even tried the control key, selecting the files in order of 001, 002,
003, etc., and they _still_ came up in Paint.NET in the wrong order.

What's the trick to getting Paint.NET to edit files in the desired order?
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Old September 19th 18, 05:52 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Arlen Holder wrote:
On 19 Sep 2018 02:15:03 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

NOTE: It's not a big deal with 9 files, but try this set of 400!

Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?


I forgot to screenshot the set of 400 files I wish to edit in order.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=8140464numbertest05.jpg

It's a waste of time to have to reorder them in Paint.NET.

What is the trick to make Windows just open the files in the correct order?


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.

First I tried disabling Windows Defender realtime protection,
and the order was still random. It's not like a computer,
to do that. I could accept "out of numeric order, but
consistent from run to run". But finding different orders
from one run to the next, that's a puzzle. And it's a puzzle
because there is likely a single thread of execution
opening the files. So somehow they're arriving at a queue
inside the system, randomly. How is that possible ?

*******

If you use the batch command in Irfanview, and you select
1..10 for files, it lists them 10,1,2,3...9. The last item
in the extended selection, becomes the first item in the
list. But at least that behavior is consistent from run
to run. It always seems to do that (inside the tool).

If you want consistency, you might have to batch process
things.

In IrfanView, you can also try crafting the extended selection
outside the tool (in Notepad), then paste it into the open
dialog, and see if that helps process them in a desired order.

*******

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.

That's why we have IrfanView, NetPBM/PBMPlus. The latter
examples there, allow piping commands to one another, to
do simple things like crop and convert to a new image format.

Maybe those 400 images are your vacation photos,
but that's a hell of a lot of edits to do, even with
a macro. I've scanned a 50 page document (a "do not copy"
document) from work, and processed that, and even that
job was nuts, and I swore I'd never do one of those
again. I was a lather of sweat when I was finished.
"Boring repetitive operations are boring."

Paul
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Old September 19th 18, 06:35 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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
do (truth be told, they're always lying).

Unlike morons like nopsam, I like to help people and to do that you need to
point out the little details, and also I like to prove I did what I say I
did, so I often have to add text to screenshots, to point out the
specifics.

It's a waste of time to have to re-order the screenshots every time.

Certainly there must be a REASON why Windows is capriciously opening files.
But what?
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Old September 19th 18, 08:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 19 Sep 2018 05:35:46 GMT, Arlen Holder wrote:

Certainly there must be a REASON why Windows is capriciously opening files.
But what?


As a test, which failed, I installed Fast Stone Image Viewer version 6.4
http://www.fastone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

I selected a dozen files named with numbers on the end
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1623177faststone002.png

The good news is they opened in the expected numerical order in FastStone
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=9848098faststone001.png

Why does FastStone work as expected, but not Paint.NET nor Paint?

Unfortunately, I've been editing screenshots for decades where nothing
comes close to Paint.NET for DYNAMIC editing of curved arrows, bounding
boxes, and text so even though I hate NET Framework, I'm stuck editing with
Paint.NET because nothing is anywhere near close (not even Pinta).

Trying to get FastStone to feed the files in order to Paint.NET
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2153814fastone001.png

I hit FastStone: Edit Edit with External Program Add/Remove Programs
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1224536fastone002.png

I hit "Add", and found the Paint.NET executable, and hit "OK", "OK".
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=1886841fastone003.png

I pressed "control+a" inside of FastStone:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=3734808fastone004.png

Then FastStone: Edit Edit with External Program PaintDotNet (E)
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=2563105fastone005.png

Unfortunately, that only edited a single file, and not the selected set.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=5840435fastone006.png

So that was a bust.

If we could figure out why Paint and Paint.NET get the file order
capriciously, we could begin to solve that pesky problem.
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Old September 19th 18, 05:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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In article ,
says...

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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Old September 19th 18, 09:10 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Arlen H. Holder
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 13:50:31 -0300, pjp wrote:

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.


That's interesting.
It's not like computers to be capricious.
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Old September 19th 18, 11:09 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:15:03 -0000 (UTC), Arlen Holder
wrote:

Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?

Knowing Microsoft orders files funny when you name then file1 or file01, I
named a bunch of screenshots ant001, ant002, ... ant009 using Irfanview
batch renaming commands.

In Windows file explorer, I selected the first file ant001:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=686...mbertest01.jpg

And then held down the shift key to select the last file, ant009, which
selects all nine files.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=890...mbertest02.jpg

I right click on any one of them to "Edit with Paint.NET":
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=700...mbertest03.jpg

But when Paint.NET comes up, they're in a seemingly capricious order.
ant008, ant005, ant003, ant006, ant009, ant004, ant002, and007, and001
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=731...mbertest04.jpg

This capricious ordering happens day in and day out, no matter what, which
makes sequential screenshot editing a pain for no good reason (AFAIK).

Since I wish to edit them in sequence to document an Android to iOS file
transfer, I have to manually reorder them within Paint.NET.

What trick am I missing for loading them into Paint.NET in correct order?

NOTE: It's not a big deal with 9 files, but try this set of 400!

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.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens
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Old September 19th 18, 12:38 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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
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Old September 19th 18, 02:49 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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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
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Old September 19th 18, 02:59 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 09:49:02 -0400, Paul wrote:

from a
directory traversal point of view, I don't understand
how the "answer" can come up different on each run.


I agree with Paul's observation that there is something "capricious" going
on, where computers aren't supposed to be doing different things when all
we're doing is selecting files to open in a series.

I don't know if Paul saw the FastStone test, but FastStone is clearly
running a "sort" of some sort.

But why should a sort be needed?
Why would Windows feed files in a capricious order to the editors?
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Old September 21st 18, 03:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Arlen Holder wrote:
Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?

Knowing Microsoft orders files funny when you name then file1 or file01, I
named a bunch of screenshots ant001, ant002, ... ant009 using Irfanview
batch renaming commands.

In Windows file explorer, I selected the first file ant001:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=686...mbertest01.jpg

And then held down the shift key to select the last file, ant009, which
selects all nine files.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=890...mbertest02.jpg

I right click on any one of them to "Edit with Paint.NET":
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=700...mbertest03.jpg

But when Paint.NET comes up, they're in a seemingly capricious order.
ant008, ant005, ant003, ant006, ant009, ant004, ant002, and007, and001
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=731...mbertest04.jpg

This capricious ordering happens day in and day out, no matter what, which
makes sequential screenshot editing a pain for no good reason (AFAIK).

Since I wish to edit them in sequence to document an Android to iOS file
transfer, I have to manually reorder them within Paint.NET.

What trick am I missing for loading them into Paint.NET in correct order?

NOTE: It's not a big deal with 9 files, but try this set of 400!

Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?


IIRC, you strip the EXIF information from your JPEGs. As a test,
create a few .jpg files *with* the EXIF information intact and see if
*they* come out in order in Paint.NET.
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Old September 21st 18, 04:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 21 Sep 2018 14:09:49 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote:

IIRC, you strip the EXIF information from your JPEGs. As a test,
create a few .jpg files *with* the EXIF information intact and see if
*they* come out in order in Paint.NET.


Thank you Frank Slootweg for your purposefully helpful adult post.

You may be on to something, in that EXIF information is certainly stored
inside of some JPEG files.

You are correct that Paint.NET adds EXIF information to any files saved as
JPEGs, and that I use Irfanview to strip out that EXIF information after
the fact (it's just an advertisement for Paint.NET that they put in the
EXIF tags, so it's unrelated to the date EXIF information).

However, that stripping of EXIF information happens only after the edits.

In this case, the snapshots are all done with the Windows+PrintScreen
button, which snaps a PNG file of the entire screen in a named sequence of
"Screenshot (739).png", "Screenshot (740).png", etc.

I don't know if there is a way to get "Windows+PrintScreen" to snapshot a
JPEG file instead of a PNG file, so that I can run a test of what you
suggested.

Googling, it doesn't appear to be possible:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/how-to-change-print-screen-to-default-in-jpg

Of course, it's possible to snap a JPG screenshot with other editors, for
example, Greenshot, but not with Windows+PrintScreen (apparently):
http://getgreenshot.org/
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Old September 21st 18, 07:34 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Arlen Holder wrote:
Why when I select pictures 1 to 10, does Paint.NET order them capriciously?

Knowing Microsoft orders files funny when you name then file1 or file01, I
named a bunch of screenshots ant001, ant002, ... ant009 using Irfanview
batch renaming commands.

In Windows file explorer, I selected the first file ant001:
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=686...mbertest01.jpg

And then held down the shift key to select the last file, ant009, which
selects all nine files.
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=890...mbertest02.jpg

I right click on any one of them to "Edit with Paint.NET":
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=700...mbertest03.jpg


Hmmm!? Is it possible that this is yet another part of Windows 10 which
is broken?

I'm saying this because I tried to reproduce your problem on my
Windows 8.1 system, but if you select *multiple* files, the right-click
menu no longer offers the Open, Open with ..., Edit [...], etc. choices.
So this must be new functionality in Windows 10.

But when Paint.NET comes up, they're in a seemingly capricious order.
ant008, ant005, ant003, ant006, ant009, ant004, ant002, and007, and001
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=731...mbertest04.jpg


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