Photos transferred from old phone appearing unorganized.

[Will Butterton]

I'm beginning to get extremely frustrated. So I switched from an s3 to an s5, and of course swapped over my old albums and photos. When I plug my sd card into the s5 the albums are all there, but the photos within the album are jumbled, and appear to have more recent ones at the bottom. I have to scroll through hundreds of screenshots (in my screenshot album) just to see my more recent ones. The worst part is that its not even in order half the time. some old ones are at the bottom along with new ones. I plugged the sd card back into the s3, and what do you know they are in the wrong order now. Luckily I saved copies of the albums in the right order. The photos I transferred not via sd card do the same thing too. Only a few of my albums (camera) stayed in order. I'm thoroughly annoyed.

 

[Will Butterton]

I also used smart switch, and it reorganized them. They are getting reorganized by name instead of date and I can't find a way to stop it

 

[colestein]

Hi All

Just wondering if anyone has an idea or solution on how to fix this. With 3000+ photos in my gallery, it's really tough trying to find one when they're out of order. ANY ideas are really appreciated. Thanks.

 

[TheJacksonian]

I'm in the same boat after using smart switch, any info would be appreciated.

 

[colestein]

I'm in the same boat after using smart switch, any info would be appreciated.

Clearly nobody in the android enthusiast forum has a suggestion for an android app. Oh well.

 

[1Coopgt]

So does this bother you ?

 

[TheJacksonian]

Clearly nobody in the android enthusiast forum has a suggestion for an android app. Oh well.

I went back and took another look at the photos, they don't appear to have all the correct exif info in them, I think the migration might be to blame, I'm going to have another look at whether I have a version of them with all the info, that will probably then sort correctly.

No app will be able to fix this if the data in the images is incorrect/missing.

 

[TheJacksonian]

Hi All

Just wondering if anyone has an idea or solution on how to fix this. With 3000+ photos in my gallery, it's really tough trying to find one when they're out of order. ANY ideas are really appreciated. Thanks.

I resolved this in my case.

it looks like the samsung smart switch doesn't handle the files as elegantly as we'd like.
I ended up making sure that the 'date taken' property (I'm windows 8) of the images was correct (I used a tool call exiftool to set some that weren't right based on the creation date).
And recopied them onto the microSD (that's where I have my pictures residing). Now they are showing in the gallery in 'date taken' order.

I couldn't do this with videos, so I put them in a separate album, it's not ideal, but it's worked, my album shows photos last taken at the top.

Good luck.