EOS R10 Photos not downloading in chronological order

[wolf42f]

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!

[kvbarkley]

What computer, OS and photo software?

Can you send us a screenshot?

[Tronhard · Accepted solution]

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

[kvbarkley]

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.

[Tronhard]

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.

[p4pictures]

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.

[wolf42f]

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]

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.