Wrong direction "Sort by date" in Photo Downloader

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February 15, 2022
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The photo downloader suddenly sorts by date in the wrong direction - the oldest are displayed first. How can I change this?

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Erik Bloodaxe

Legend

Surely oldest first is the order one would require? Otherwise any sequence of images would be read backwards like reading a book from last page (newest) to first (oldest).

When I said earlier that this issue had been fixed, this was because for a short time after the "not remembering settings" issue was fixed, the image download order was changed to newest to oldest and we all complained about that. Since then it has been corrected to oldest to newest, the desired order in my opinion.

Here is the discussion about the exact opposite sort order:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/bridge-discussions/reverse-numbering-in-downloader/m-p/12603623#M31754

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pdchristian

Participating Frequently

The enoying thing is: When I have a lot of pictures on the SD card (which have already been downloaded to my Mac), I have to wait for all 2000 pictures for a preview picture to be rendered by the Photo Downloader, before I can access the new pictures from today.
So currently I have no option but to use the file explorer to download the files.

If I cannot change the sorting order back to the old one I practically cannot use the Photo Downloader anymore.

Or I keep on using my 2011 MacBook Air 🙂 ... no

gary_sc

Community Expert

This is a long-standing bug that will probably be fixed one of these days but current is a bug.

You can either download the files to the Finder/Exporer, revert to an earlier version of Bridge, or just deal with it.

Sorry, that's the options you have.

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pdchristian

Participating Frequently

Hello,

I experience the same problem with the Bridge 2022 on Windows and Mac.

I have been using the Photo Downloader for many years (and Bridge versions) on my Mac. When I opened the Photo Downloader in the extended view I had the following order:

- showing the pictures of today in the order they were taken

- below the pictures from yesterday in the order they were taken

- ...

This setting is still curent on my old MacBook with Bridge 2022

Now I did a clean install of Bridge on my new PC and Mac. On both mashines I have the following sort order

- showing me all pictures in the order they were taken

The problem with that setting is, that my recently taken pictures are on the bottom of the list. Photo Downloader did not manage to reach the bottom in a reasonable time. This means I had to go to the finder to note the image file names to download them.

This is really enoying! How can I change the setting to make it work, like it does on my old MacBook (showing the last date first)?

Thanks in advance.