Suggesting new option for Auto Sort

fhvill

Hello,
For my first 2 galleries I used filename numbering so that it comes in the required order into the gallery after uploading. I had therefore to keep auto sort set on filename with ascending number. After a little while I wanted to change the order of a few photos. Then I realized it had trapped me into complete inability to rearrange anything. When I set Auto Sort to None, my photos where badly reshuffled and I had to painstakingly rearrange almost all one by one. When I left Auto Sort to Filename, any local rearranging I did after checking 'arrange mode' was lost as soon as I browsed through gallery pages, without getting any warning I would loose my time.

Really, rearranging photos is a poor (or nut-) case on SmugMug. Please fix this urgently. I suggest implementing an extra option for Auto Sort : None But Keep Image Order As Is Now. That should not be very difficult to do for the programmers.

Andy

Thanks for taking the time. Do you mind putting it on our official feedback forum, too? http://smugmug.uservoice.com

Allen

fhvill wrote:

Hello,
For my first 2 galleries I used filename numbering so that it comes in the required order into the gallery after uploading. I had therefore to keep auto sort set on filename with ascending number. After a little while I wanted to change the order of a few photos. Then I realized it had trapped me into complete inability to rearrange anything. When I set Auto Sort to None, my photos where badly reshuffled and I had to painstakingly rearrange almost all one by one. When I left Auto Sort to Filename, any local rearranging I did after checking 'arrange mode' was lost as soon as I browsed through gallery pages, without getting any warning I would loose my time.

Really, rearranging photos is a poor (or nut-) case on SmugMug. Please fix this urgently. I suggest implementing an extra option for Auto Sort : None But Keep Image Order As Is Now. That should not be very difficult to do for the programmers.

Under customize gallery set sort to none and ascending. This makes the
arrange/sort under the tools button active.

You can now arrange photos any way you want under
tools > many photos > arrange > arrange by number or other

This is one shot so after initial sort you can now arrange individual photos
by clicking the arrange box under the man photo in Smugmug style or going
back to the tools menu.