I have several hundred photos to put on web pages (Vista), and they need to go on in "date taken" order. This is not "date modified." I can sort them that way in Windows Explorer, but can't drag and drop a list into Coffee Cup html editor that maintains that order. It reorders them oddly. Also in the "my computer" tab inside Coffee Cup, I can't locate a way to specify "date taken" as the file order. Can anyone help (short of telling me to add them one-by-one)?

How about renaming them with the date taken.

I agree naming the files would be the best. You might want to use one of these formats.

2011_01_04.jpg or 20110104.jpg

Pushing the year in the front forces the years together. If you use the _ it visually allows you to see the dates faster. Using 0 in front of the 1 thru 9 numbers is very important to keep the months and days separate. Other wise it will not keep the months and days together.

Always go Year, Month and then date - that keeps them in date order, if you do day before month, then you get all the days together and the months are messed up.

I do lots of this as I post tons of revisions on websites. My format is usually this:

min20110112.pdf - I use a 3 digit letter abbreviation up front to sort my files out by what they are and then by date. It works great.


Currently My Computer tab only shows and sorts by the modified date.

When I have large number of files that I need to know the date of, I always save the date in the file name. It makes my life easier to just click sort by date and have it place the files in order. Then it pushes out the other files that don't apply out of my way.

If you have a really large number of photos, it may be quite a daunting task to manually renaming them one by one. But if you can get them in the right order in some other program, which can do batch re-naming, you may be able to rename them 'automatically' by e.g. adding a 4-digit sequential number in the beginning of the original file name. I haven't tried this, but I know that e.g. Irfanview can do a lot of batch operations on photos, including renaming. May be worth looking into. Irfanview is great for a number of other photo-related tasks also, and it's free. You can get Irfanview here: http://www.irfanview.com/

Kim, what if there are more than one image taken on a specific day?