An apology is in order. I suggested to Christine the other day that we might want to sort the images on Erin’s Photobucket site such that the most recent is at the top. Since this blog presents the latest update at the top, a similar sort order for the photos made sense.
I should have known better. Since I work with computers, I know that nothing involving a computer is ever as simple as it seems. And that’s definitely the case here.
- Complication 1: Photobucket will let you sort by date added (newest or oldest first), by original filename (A-Z only), or by title (A-Z only).
- Complication 2: A number of cameras were used to take the pictures, and each one uses its own naming convention.
- Complication 3: Christine and I both use Canon cameras, which use the same naming convention, so her IMG_150 and my IMG_150 might be taken six months apart.
- Complication 4: Photobucket doesn’t have an “undo” function.
- Complication 5: All new uploaded images go to the back of the line, so we’d have to re-sort everything every time we added new images.
I’m sure you can see where this is going. After an hour or so of frustration, we gave up on getting it right. We undid what damage we could, but we had to create a couple of additional folders to sort things out. You can access them from the links on the left side of the main page, under KurtsCamera and other. Over the next week or so, we’ll be re-sorting Erin’s pictures, but for now, things are a bit messy.
As I said, an apology is in order.
PS If anyone has a better idea for a photo site, please let us know by email or in the comments below.
1 comment:
I use Flickr. (www.flickr.com) You can give tags to the pictures and do a search for them. So if you want to see all of Erin's birthday pictures ever, you'd tag the pictures 'erin' and 'birthday.' Pop those words in the search feature and voila! The only bad thing is you have to pay $25 a year for all the really good features like unlimited storage.
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