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Have you ever been annoyed by the Finder's inability to open a bunch of files in any kind of order? I have. I frequently drag 30 or 40 images to Photoshop or some other graphics application. If one does this from the Finder (ie, a folder, including the Desktop), they open in a seemingly random order.

The solution is to use the Browser in GraphicConverter. Put all the images into a folder. Select the folder in GraphicConverter using Command-Option-O (File -> Browse Folder...), and all the images will appear in alphabetical order. Using the browser, you can display them by name, date, label, size, or kind, in obverse or reverse order.

To open in GraphicConverter, just select all or a group and double-click. To open in Photoshop, Preview, or other graphics program, make your selection and drag it to the graphics application's icon in your Dock or in DragThing. They will all open in the order displayed in the GraphicConverter Browser.

[robg adds: You can open images in name order only by using a column-view window in the Finder. Also, Photoshop has its own Browse feature (Adobe Bridge), which will also let you sort and then open in the sorted order. I'm not sure if this is present in the newest versions of Photoshop Elements or not.]
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Open images for editing in a specified order
Authored by: osxpounder on Jul 27, '06 01:37:19PM

Robg's additional comment is a great tip on its own. I just tried dragging a list of files onto a plain text document, and here's what I found:

List view:
Even if the files are sorted by name in List view, they don't appear sorted in the text doc. Dragging them gives long path names, but copying [CMD-C] the files in Finder, then pasting in TextEdit, pastes only the file names.

Column view:
If I drag from a column view, the files don't always drop onto the TextEdit doc at all, but if I copy and paste, I see filenames, properly sorted. Once I've pasted *something* [I only did all these tests with the same copy made from same Finder window to same TextEdit doc], it seems I can drag and drop filenames into the document, and they will appear with full pathnames, and all is sorted properly by name. Hope this helps some of you.

I didn't test Icon view because I seldom find it useful except when browsing image files.



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Open images for editing in a specified order
Authored by: Swordfish on Jul 27, '06 07:35:42PM

You can display images by name, date, path, keyword, size, or kind in Preview drawer (control-click).



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