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LoneRider · 06-19-2009, 09:53 AM

Hello. Just trying to find out what I'm missing as I've been trying to burn a CD using Leopard's (10.5.7) built in Burn function. I have no problem making the CD, as far as that goes, but the files are jpg photos and I want them to be burned in chronological order. That way, the reader of the CD is able to start at the top and the order adds to the sense of the photos. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any way to easily do this, although I can use any number of PC programs (CDRWIN, e.g.) to accomplish it (and these are programs I have to buy to use, I know). But I've been mildly surprised and, for now at least, I'm just assuming there may be some obscure setting that I have wrong that would allow me to change the order of the files written to the CD using Leopard's Burn function. As it stands, it looks like they are written only in filename alphabetical order, regardless of the order of the alias's in the burn folder.

So what I'm asking is if there's anyone out there who can confirm that there's no way to do what I want to do (aside from renaming all the files, of course) with Leopard's default (especially Burn) software. And if there is a way, please let me know. I'm confident that there are Mac programs out there that will let me do this ... but it seems like such an easy thing for something that should already exist in the Mac OS that I really feel I must be missing it.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice ...

Ken

06-19-2009, 09:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
LoneRider Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hiawatha, IA Posts: 13 OS: Mac OS X 10.5.5 & WinXP SP3	Burn CD--File Order Hello. Just trying to find out what I'm missing as I've been trying to burn a CD using Leopard's (10.5.7) built in Burn function. I have no problem making the CD, as far as that goes, but the files are jpg photos and I want them to be burned in chronological order. That way, the reader of the CD is able to start at the top and the order adds to the sense of the photos. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any way to easily do this, although I can use any number of PC programs (CDRWIN, e.g.) to accomplish it (and these are programs I have to buy to use, I know). But I've been mildly surprised and, for now at least, I'm just assuming there may be some obscure setting that I have wrong that would allow me to change the order of the files written to the CD using Leopard's Burn function. As it stands, it looks like they are written only in filename alphabetical order, regardless of the order of the alias's in the burn folder. So what I'm asking is if there's anyone out there who can confirm that there's no way to do what I want to do (aside from renaming all the files, of course) with Leopard's default (especially Burn) software. And if there is a way, please let me know. I'm confident that there are Mac programs out there that will let me do this ... but it seems like such an easy thing for something that should already exist in the Mac OS that I really feel I must be missing it. Thanks in advance for any help and advice ... Ken