Set manual sort order from some other order
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2023 8:15 pm
I'm scanning a bunch of old slides. The order of the slides is generally correct, but not always. The scanned photos have a numeric sequence in their file name, set by the scanning software (via my preferences). What I want to do is set the order in the GC browser to the file name order, and then tweak some of the slides - so I set the sort order to manual for that. This works in simple cases, but not always: sometimes I am merging photos from multiple slide trays, and the order in those trays was not correct. In those cases, when I set the GC browser order to manual, it can effectively shuffle the slides a bit.
What I'd like to do is sort by name (or any other supported property), and then tell GC to set the manual sort order to that existing order, replacing the saved manual sort order saved in the extended attributes. I can then tweak the resulting manual ordering as needed, and finally rename the whole batch to get the file names in order.
Is there any way to do that setting of the manual sort order? Doing it manually for several hundred slides is painful, especially when the file name order is so nearly correct.
What I'd like to do is sort by name (or any other supported property), and then tell GC to set the manual sort order to that existing order, replacing the saved manual sort order saved in the extended attributes. I can then tweak the resulting manual ordering as needed, and finally rename the whole batch to get the file names in order.
Is there any way to do that setting of the manual sort order? Doing it manually for several hundred slides is painful, especially when the file name order is so nearly correct.