John Inzer wrote:
> Gladys222 wrote:
>
>> Hello, when I put my photos in my pictures, they are put
>> in individual folders and in the order I like. Like,
>> photo of mommy pregnant, having baby, after baby arrives.
>> My order. Well, when I back them up to a cd they are put
>> in a different order, unorganized. How do I keep them in
>> the order I prefer when I backup my pictures. I have
>> windows xp home edition. Thank you for your time.
>
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> Simple answer...numbers. Have a look at the following tutorial:

<snip excellent explanation>

Since virtually all digital photographs are dated by the
camera, sorting by creation date will do the job fine
for all "originals".

There are shareware (and freeware?) tools for renaming and/or
redating files based upon the date and time of the picture
stored in the .jpg's EXIF information. This can be used
to quickly "chronologize" any set of photos, regardless of
naming convention.

-michael

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