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EOS R10 Photos not downloading in chronological order

wolf42f
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I just returned from my first vacation using my new R 10, with a high speed card. 
(bought a brand new laptop and a card reader as well so that I could do more editing) 

but when I downloaded the photos, they are all mixed up! Literally scrambled, day 1 pics next to day 10 pics, all mixed up!   Now, I did not put the date and time into the camera, until late in the trip, but that doesn’t seem to be the issue. Also, even without date and time, I would think the pics would be in order of when they were taken..l 

please help! I have 1900 scrambled photos to edit!

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Tronhard
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Hi and welcome:
Is your comment about what you see in the computer?
If so, please check the settings for listing the files.  Since you did not set the date and time, I suggest you select the order for files to be by name rather than date and time


cheers, TREVOR

The mark of good photographer is less what they hold in their hand, it's more what they hold in their head;
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow", Leo Tolstoy;
"Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase" Percy W. Harris

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kvbarkley
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What computer, OS and photo software?

Can you send us a screenshot?

Tronhard
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Hi and welcome:
Is your comment about what you see in the computer?
If so, please check the settings for listing the files.  Since you did not set the date and time, I suggest you select the order for files to be by name rather than date and time


cheers, TREVOR

The mark of good photographer is less what they hold in their hand, it's more what they hold in their head;
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow", Leo Tolstoy;
"Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase" Percy W. Harris

It shouldn't matter. For a typical Canon camera, the images will be sequentially taken in date order with sequential file names:

IMG_0001 taken first

IMG_0002 taken next

and so on. Whether you sort by date or alphabetically, they should still come out arranged correctly.

The only thing I can figure is that he is using something like Photos and looking at something like the location view.

 

Hi Keith:

Well, I am looking at the OP's comment: "Now, I did not put the date and time into the camera, until late in the trip" - so that would likely confuse things in that respect if the dates are being used to list the files, but the file names should still be in the order in which they were shot.  However, if the file display order on the OP's computer is not in file name order then the images may seem mixed up.
We need more information as to whether this is on camera, on computer operating system, what program, what settings.


cheers, TREVOR

The mark of good photographer is less what they hold in their hand, it's more what they hold in their head;
"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow", Leo Tolstoy;
"Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase" Percy W. Harris

p4pictures
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You said you used a card reader to import the images, did you just copy them to your computer using Finder / Explorer or something else.

On the card the files will be in order of when they were taken, by filename. So IMG_0001 comes before IMG_0002 etc. However if the first image is IMG_9990 and then you take 10 more images the number gets reset, so that it will be IMG_0001 again in a new folder. This is then out of order against the earlier images that started IMG_9990. 

If you can sort your images by date, then the first set before you set the date/time should still follow in order. Then the second set after the date/time was set will follow in order.

Some programs exist to change the date/time stamp in the image so you could correct the date/time in the first set of images.


Brian
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wolf42f
Apprentice

Thanks for the replies. 
There’s a little more to this story…

At first, I uploaded exactly the same way that I always have in the past, when I had my rebel Eos camera.   I had always used my  Mac book pro. (Put card in the slot)  and all photos downloaded into computer.  This time, with card that I used in the R 10, they all loaded in scrambled order. 
so… a photographer friend suggested I buy a card reader. Tried that, no luck… 

so… I bought a brand new computer (Apple Mac book pro- my old one was over 10 yrs old, and needed the upgrade) and  I tried again, uploaded to that using the brand new Apple Card reader… uploading into the photos library on the Mac, and still got scrambled mages. 

kvbarkley
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We have no idea what you mean by "scrambled" images, or where you are seeing them on the computer. without more info, we can't help much.

I’m sorry, I tried to explain in my two posts/comments

What I mean by scrambled, is that images from different locations taken at different times, are loading without sequential order.  Ex: even though there were many photos from each location, there is a photo  of mountains, then ocean, then dogs, then maybe one from the first day of trip, and then one from the last day… they are showing up in photo library  randomly,

 

i suppose the issue isn’t the camera, but something in the program.  But  this never happened with my canon Eos 3, using the same program and procedure. 

Is this Photos?

What view of the library are you looking at?

Again, can we get a screenshot?

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