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Feature Request

Hi, I love Opticull for culling my wildlife photos. I do not use the ai features. I shoot a lot at 30 fps (frames per second) so many my photos have the same time. Optical does not present them in the correct order- even when I use sort by capture time. If I could sort by file name that would allow me to keep them in the correct order. Thanks.

Posted by stuart.chalmers1 ·
Status: Completed4 comments

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  • Shailesh - DopeAI

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    Apr 2

    Added in version 1.15.0: Sorting by filename, as a fallback when the timestamps are same

  • w.shih

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    Jan 5

    I’ve got a similar issue as well. I sometimes convert my camera raw files to dng before culling. Using “Capture time sort order” only looks at the file creation time and not the exif capture date time.

    any update on when or if file name sorting will be added? thanks

  • abdulhakimnurmaulana

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    May 11, 2025

    i get same experience with this, but different genre, i shot sport and do a lot burst, but when i sort by time capture, it still doesn’t sort correctly according to the time. Many file still jumping, like after number file 1 is 3. hope this will be fix, thanks

  • Shailesh - DopeAI

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    Feb 7, 2025

    Thank you for the feedback. Can you please send a few samples from the burst to support@dopeai.tech, please include any metadata sidecars if present? OptiCull generally parses milliseconds from the photo metadata and therefore sorts the photos in the order they were taken. But for some cameras, that info may not be present, or may be saved in some proprietary tags.

    Sorting by filename, at least as a fallback when the timestamp is the same, is long overdue; I will update here once fixed.