John Inzer wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> 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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> Dates won't help you when you're burning a CD. Sorting is based on the
> file name...
> numbers first then letters.

For this case, renaming tools are very handy, ensuring that the
convention is followed exactly.

-michael

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