order of file names

Posted by John Alexander-7 on Jan 18, 2008; 7:54pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/order-of-file-names-tp3697524.html

This is really frustrating - but I have 3 folders
cy2
cy3
cy5
and in each folder there are 40 files in the form of NAME_#_CHANNEL
where "channel" is either cy2, cy3, or cy5 and # goes from 1 to 40.

So I drag the folder onto imageJ and it asks me if I want to open all
the files in a stack.

That is exactly what I want to do.

I do this for all three folders - and the file order is not the same
between the stacks.

What aspects of a filename dictate the file order?  Considering that hte
file names are exact and only differ by the tag on the end - is there
anything I can do?

The only solution I have found is to open the folder and highlight all
the files and drag them all onto imageJ.  Then run Convert Images to Stack
I repeat this with the 3 folders and then I have 3 stacks with the same
file order.
But it would be far more convenient to not have to do this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

John


PS - I am running Suse linus 10.2 with ImageJ 1.39J and java 1.6.0

This problem has been occurring with all previous ImageJ versions and
previous Java versions.