http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-Renaming-files-1-99-tp3700601p3700602.html
I had asked a similar question some time ago. Two solutions are possible. As Kyle suggested you could rename the files with zero padding so that the alphabetical and numerical sort orders coincide. I have used a free program XnView (not sure if it works on Mac) for this. The other is to use the virtual stack opener plugin available from the ImageJ plugins page. Wayne Rasband has updated this to get the correct sort order.
renaming files. Just google the name of the program to find the site to
download. It costs ~$20, but works very well on both macs and pcs.
> For another kludge, there was this posting in October:
>
https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0610&L=imagej&H=1&P=12039>
> On Jan 10, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Jeff Hardin wrote:
>
>> Dear Grant,
>>
>> I had to write a plugin for this for Perkin-Elmer confocal stack
>> files. There's no other way I could figure out how to do this. I
>> should release this on the ImageJ web site, but need to clean it up
>> and comment the code. It involves (a) knowing your naming
>> structure; and (b) adding "0"s to pad the file name. The problem is
>> that where these zeroes have to go depends on the naming structure,
>> so there is no universal renamer that can realistically work.
>>
>> Hope that helps...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeff
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>> Jeff Hardin
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>> Director, Biology Core Curriculum
>> University of Wisconsin
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>>
>> On Jan 4, 2007, at 11:00 PM, IMAGEJ automatic digest system wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:38:15 -0800
>>> From: "McAuley, Grant (LLU)" <
[hidden email]>
>>> Subject: Raw Image Stacks: Image Ordering/Reordering
>>>
>>> Sorry if this has been asked before (searched list archives -
>>> maybe not right combination of words?).
>>>
>>> I need to import stacks of raw images using File->Import->Raw and
>>> selecting 'Open All Files in Folder'. The images have filenames
>>> that contain letters and numbers: zz-1, zz-2, ... , zz-10,
>>> zz-11, ..., zz-48.
>>>
>>> When the stack gets created the order becomes: zz-1, zz-10,
>>> zz-11, ... , zz-2, zz-21, ... instead of what I want: zz-1,
>>> zz-2, ..., zz-10, zz-11, ...
>>>
>>> 1) Can I tell ImageJ to do a numeric instead of alpha sort on the
>>> filename numbers when the stack is created?
>>> 2) If not, is there a better way to resort the stack than the
>>> 'Stack Sorter' plugin (nice, but tedious for 48 images/stack)?
>
>
Kyle E. Miller
Dept. of Zoology
E. Lansing, MI 48824
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