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Hi to everyone.

First of all, thanks for letting me join this community. My name is Angel and I live in Venezuela.

Ant Renamer is a great program. I've got it at Portable Apps and I use it almost daily.

I copied a group of images but I didn't realize their name were unsorted in random letters sequence. Images require a specific sequence by creation date and time.

My question is wether it's possible to sort them by creation date and time. I have tried a lot but I haven't found out a way to rename image names with date (optional) and time included seconds (required)

Perhaps it's not possible to be made in one step but it doesn't matter. If I can rename images to time in hour-minute-second format, I'm done.

Thanks in advance for any help someone here may give me.

Best Regards from Venezuela

anfelinux

Hi,
There are several dates available:
- file creation date (probably useless here, as it changes each time you copy the file: it is recreated on the target drive)
- file modification date (changes when the contents is changed, or sometimes when transferred by internet or through an application)
- exif date stored inside the photos

For the two first cases, corresponding columns can be shown in Ant Renamer and so the files can be sorted according to these.
For renaming to a name containing them, there is the "date & time" action.

For the last one, there is the "exif info" action. In that one, you may use the tag %DateTimeOriginal% or %DateTimeDigitized% to get the needed date/time. Once the files are renamed using that date, they'll be sorted by date when sorted by name.

Another solution, if you can display the wanted date properly in Windows is to sort them in Windows then drag & drop the files list to Ant Renamer window, to have the files in the list there in the same order (as long as another sort order isn't forced there - it can be cancelled via the right-click menu of the file list headers).

Thanks a lot for your kind answer.
I will try this and report next weekend

Best regards