I am running Thumbsplus 8, Service Pack 1. Among several problems with this software, the most difficult is inconsistent and erratic sorting. Specifically:
1. Keyboard shortcuts do not work at all. The have never worked in v8. They used to work fine in v 7.
2. If I click on Window ->Sort and then use the drop downs to select a sort criteria, it sometimes works, but usually does not. Thumbs usually stay sorted by name with no change regardless of what I select. Sometimes, however, the sort does work.
3. I get screwy sort results in some cases. For example, I just did a sort by file type and the thumbs are now arranged like this: 1- PSD, 1- TIF, 1- DNG, 3 - TIF's, 806 - DNG's, 4- TIF's, 3 -PSD's, and lastly, 3- TIF's. That's not sorted. That's scrambled. I can see no order to how these images are appearing - not by date, time, etc.
4. In some cases if I select a sort and it does not work, and then exit and restart the program, the selected sort will be applied. Usually, the selected sort is gone and the drop downs under Window - Sort are blank.
5. Window - Sort -Descending does work, as does the keyboard short cut.
Any idea about how to fix this? I'm probably going back to v7 since, since being able to quickly sort through a day's photos is basic to my workflow.
I'm running Windows 7 x64, if that matters.
Thanks .