Slideshow problem

[dmsind]

I have loaded over 1000 pictures and go to load them for a slideshow, and when I run it, it will start on picture 500 then go to picture 1001 and so on. I have start with image number 1 in the box. Please help me, I would like to start on picture 1 then 2 in slideshow. I use version 4.27 Windows 7 Ulimate Duo Core

[Frank]

What have you selected in the slideshow options?

• "Automatic after ... "
• "Random after ... "

Could this be the reason?

[bohdan]

I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I discovered a strange problem when working with Irfanview slideshow on a hard-drive partition that was formatted FAT-32, instead of NTFS.

In FAT-32, Irfanview slideshow only recognizes the files in unsorted order, NOT alphanumerically!!! Until I first re-copied all the files in a single operation into a new directory (and that also only after first marking (selecting) all of them in the correct alpha-numerical order!** with the “insert” key, and then copied them (in Norton Commander, with F-5) from the working directory, into the new, blank directory), the slide show function SKIPPED those files which had been more recently added to the original, working directory (or which had been re-named), irregardless of their name, and showed them in the wrong sequence, basing its recognition of them exclusively upon when they were first added to that directory, showing the newest additions (or modifications) last – (even if they had much older file-creation dates!)

**(For instance, if for some reason I first happened to mark only the bottom half of the list of files in a directory, say files 151-300, and then went back to the top of the list, and marked files 001-150 as well, and then copied them all to a new directory, in a single operation!, even then, the Irfanview slideshow would still automatically start with file 151, and would only show files 001-150 after it had first shown nrs. 151-300!)

This phenomenon doesn't occur when working on an NTFS-formatted partition or hard-drive

[Mij]

Bohdan, try using the Irfanview Search files feature from the File menu to search for any file ( *.* ) within a folder and you will see the order in which the list of files is supplied to Irfanview by the various file handlers of the Windows operating system you use. In the Browser or Slideshow Irfanview gives you a choice of whether or not it should sort the list it receives before using it. If you choose "No sort" then what you get is what Windows delivers to it and you will understand why you see what you describe.

Since the OP is using Win7 I suspect that the issue here is not one of Fat32 files but more likely what Frank suggests.We may both be wrong of course.