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kanryu / quickviewer

A image/comic viewer application for Windows, Mac and Linux, it can show images very fast
https://kanryu.github.io/quickviewer/
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Open Image Folder : Sort by "Last modified" instead of "Alphabetic" #55

Closed sebastienbo closed 6 years ago

sebastienbo commented 6 years ago

Open Image Folder : Sort by "Last modified" instead of "Alphabetic"

Hi,

I'm having an issue. When I'm opening a folder it mixes all my images because the application sorts by Alphabetic order only. When I use windows photo viewer it is mire intuively, it sorts by last modified date. Can the ordering be adapted in one of the menus?

kanryu commented 6 years ago

The display order of the images in QuickViewer is fixed in file name order (Abc).

Even if it is a book page or even a picture taken with a digital camera, it is a sequential number with the file name, because the timestamp of the file will not be in the correct order.

GitHubRulesOK commented 6 years ago

This is a common historic issue as some software looks a different file attributes (creation time, modified time alpha name e.g. 89 before 9 etc, It can be worked around using a renamer to prefix files e.g. photos based on dates so 17-12-01_PM-05_replacedfilesource.ext will come after 17-12-01_AM-10_modifiedfile.ext This may be considered a fudge by some but its good practice in data libraries to ensure files with modified attributes are fixed in date order no matter what the application