How to sort albums by name?

Maik Qualmann metzpinguin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 20:01:48 BST 2026


Menu-> View-> Sort Albums-> By Folder.
Click the album tree header to change the sort order.

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 10. Juni 2026, 20:32:10 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
James Orr:
> I've noticed that in versions 9.0 and 9.1 that I have trouble sorting albums
> by name.
 
> This is strange, because it used to work well. I've checked the
> documentation, and the process described there to invert the display order
> no longer seems to work for me.
 
> What is most irritating to me is that it makes it much more difficult to
> work on a project relating to World War 2, which has more than 60 folders
> and 1350 files. The base data are scans made over the past ten years of
> archived prints and negatives from my family's history.
 
> The folders are structured in a tree with YYYY MM DD description.
> Sub-folders are similarly named with Developed v1 and Developed v2 appended
> to the description. What I want is easily to locate images within each
> group.
 
> I thought I could force the issue by individually changing the album date
> from the creation date to the earliest date of the folder name. This
> improved the situation a bit. However, what I got was 1941, then 1945 with
> months ascending, then 1944 with months ascending, then 1943 and 1942.
 
> This seems strange to me.
> 
> I wonder what I need to do to get the album display to look and act more
> like Windows Explorer, which does what I want and expect.
 
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