Like others in this forum I've been struggling with sorting photos on my IPad 2 (IOS 5.01). My situation is complicated by the fact that I am reordering photos on my PC to get them in the order I want (sourced from two different cameras so filenames are different, and we reorder by subject in part). To preserve that new order across environments I rename the photos - for example, EG_10001, EG_10002,.... and so forth.
When I synced via Itunes the order was almost random, following no rule I could guess. I use PhotoShack Pro so I can sort by filename, but that did no better. Sort by timestamp, though, worked fine in PhotoShack Pro... Thanks to some really top-notch tech support from the PhotoShack Pro folks I was able to find out how to see the actual filenames on the IPad, and to my great surprise they had nothing to do with the originals. Instead, they were named IMG_0001, IMG_0002, and so on -- but they weren't in any particular order, or at least none I could fine. PhotoShack Pro was actually sorting them by filename just fine - but the filenames were different, and wierd, to say the least.
Acting on a suggestion from PSP tech support I copied the pictures to the DCIM directory on an SD card and then imported them to the IPad using the camera connection kit. Voila! Files came across with their names intact, and PSP sorts them perfectly by filename, timestamp, whatever. The IPad Photos app, of course, still scrambles them in some perverse fashion...
So - if you too are having file sorting issues, and if you can check the filenames on the IPad, it would be interesting to know if they are the same as the originals.
A couple related facts: there are 1238 photos in this particular set, and my laptop is running Vista...
When I synced via Itunes the order was almost random, following no rule I could guess. I use PhotoShack Pro so I can sort by filename, but that did no better. Sort by timestamp, though, worked fine in PhotoShack Pro... Thanks to some really top-notch tech support from the PhotoShack Pro folks I was able to find out how to see the actual filenames on the IPad, and to my great surprise they had nothing to do with the originals. Instead, they were named IMG_0001, IMG_0002, and so on -- but they weren't in any particular order, or at least none I could fine. PhotoShack Pro was actually sorting them by filename just fine - but the filenames were different, and wierd, to say the least.
Acting on a suggestion from PSP tech support I copied the pictures to the DCIM directory on an SD card and then imported them to the IPad using the camera connection kit. Voila! Files came across with their names intact, and PSP sorts them perfectly by filename, timestamp, whatever. The IPad Photos app, of course, still scrambles them in some perverse fashion...
So - if you too are having file sorting issues, and if you can check the filenames on the IPad, it would be interesting to know if they are the same as the originals.
A couple related facts: there are 1238 photos in this particular set, and my laptop is running Vista...