Can I drag & drop thumbnails as prep for resequence?

[Papoulka]

Background: I often want to resequence a folder of pictures e.g I might decide after looking at them that the filename order should be different. I used to do this with ULead PhotoExplorer where you could just drag and drop thumbnails and it would auto-resequence. But my old copy of PEX no longer runs under Windows 7. I found the free utility "Advanced Renamer" which can do what I want, but it's clunky. Evidently, something similar used to be available in Win XP but is now gone in Win 7; maybe due to auto-arrange settings.

I'm pretty sure that if I could re-order the thumbnails in some folder view, then I could drag them into my favorite such util ("Magic File Renamer") and resequence them as desired.

--> SO - I have searched the XY Settings, Help, and the forum here and find no mention of dragging and dropping thumbnails to rearrange them in any view. On the right-click menu in the thumbnails view, I do have "Sort By" set to "Unsorted". But still I can't move them around.

Is there an XY capability or setting I haven't found?

Thanks

[Stef123]

Tools > Customize List > Manual Sorting
Or put the "sticky icon button" on your toolbar and right-click it from there.

EDIT: Almost forgot - you have to drag pics at their caption, not their thumbs

[Enternal]

Tools > Customize List > Manual Sorting
Or put the "sticky icon button" on your toolbar and right-click it from there.

EDIT: Almost forgot - you have to drag pics at their caption, not their thumbs

Interesting! I never knew we had this feature. Now I'm a bit confused about something. What's the difference between this "Manual Sorting" and sort by "Unsorted" which was mentioned by Don when he was talking about Paper Folders. That confused me a bit.

[bdeshi]

You can move items around only if Manual Sorting is ticked.
Unsorted is just another sort order (or disorder) like ascending, random.

[admin]

Yes.

In normal folders, "Unsorted" is the original order as delivered by the file system.
In paper folders, "Unsorted" is the order as written in the paper folder file.

[Papoulka]

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Thanks Stef123 & others. "Manual Sorting" does allow me to move picture icons / thumbnails around in the view pane. I didn't find it because my help & forum searches were on keywords involving "arrange". BTW - you can drag pictures by either their icon (thumbnail) or caption.

HOWEVER - with Manual Sorting enabled I can't drag & drop out of XY! Which defeats my entire purpose. Is this a bug or is there some reason for it?

[bdeshi]

BTW - With "Manual Sorting" enabled you can drag pictures by either their icon (thumbnail) or caption.

But only if you have Left-click MDBU disabled...

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[Papoulka]

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Thank you SammaySarkar. Things happen fast on Asteroid B-612! Anyway, I wanted to repost my edit which was too slow and got bumped. The main point is:

--> With Manual Sorting enabled I can't drag & drop out of XY! Which defeats my entire purpose.

Is this a bug or is there some reason for it?

[bdeshi]

"Things happen fast on Asteroid B-612!"

With Manual Sorting enabled I can't drag & drop out of XY!

With ManSort enabled, Xy thinks all left-click drags are meant for resorting (which XY probably should not) . You see the resort line/bar moving around in the list in this case.
Let's see what Don thinks of it. Meanwhile you can right-click drag, but that often pops up a drag-drop menu.

[Papoulka]

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Actually, right-click & drag works fine. It didn't occur to me to try that...

I do agree it would be better if left-click &drag worked too, but I understand how that's trickier to program here.

Thanks again.

[Stef123]

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BTW - you can drag pictures by either their icon (thumbnail) or caption.

Wrong assumption on my part: I figured you also have Mouse Down Blow Up enabled (the reason it doesn't work here)