Sorting photo's: How Should I properly name my photo collections.

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Hi, I am having some issues with adding a photo library to my Plex server. Specifically in naming my photo collections o they show chronologically on all devices.

So far I named all photo’s: "Tanzania (1)’ all the way up to ‘Tanzania (1566)’. I added them to the photo library and everything synced up. However Plex apparently doesn’t sort em like they are sorted in the explorer. Meaning: Tanzania (1) => Tanzania (10) instead of taking Tanzania (2) as the second picture.

I investigated possible filters to sort the photo’s differently. Instead of sorting by name, I decided on sorting by ‘Date taken’. This filters the pictures in the web application in the right way. However this does not work on iPad / Samsung Smart TV / …

Any help on how to do this properly?

Kind regards,

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So you’re seeing this?:

Tanzania (1)
Tanzania (10)
Tanzania (11)
Tanzania (12)
Tanzania (13)
Tanzania (14)
Tanzania (15)
Tanzania (16)
Tanzania (17)
Tanzania (18)
Tanzania (19)
Tanzania (2)

The only way to fix that is to use leading zeroes. Since your photos number in the thousands, you should use 4 digits:

Tanzania (0001)
Tanzania (0002)
Tanzania (0003)
Tanzania (0004)
Tanzania (0005)
Tanzania (0006)
Tanzania (0007)
Tanzania (0008)
Tanzania (0009)
Tanzania (0010)

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I would file a bug. Natural sorting for human consumption is important.