I would have to mention that EDIT PREFERENCES offers you a variety of sort options.
I normally do Names +, but changed to Date +
My folder with 113 Raw images resorted by Date stamp + time (including minutes and seconds) as some were shot rapidly with 3 or 4 shots in less than a minute.
Coincidentally, the numerical filenames happen to coincide with the time stamp.
It is sorting by time stamp though, as some of the images were copied and have unique filnames.

Fred

By the way - for what it's worth - numerical file names don't always correspond to time sequence 100% of the time.  On my D200, if I take pictures a repid sequence (3 or 4 frames a second), there will be scattered images out of time sequence.  Has to do with the way the images are buffered before being stored on the flash memory. Other than that Fred has it - as he usually seems to.

Mel

Have you tried sorting by NAMES + or - ?
Unless you are shooting Video, each shot should have a number of its own, No?

Fred

Correct if you are only using the info out to the second. I asked Nikon "When shooting at high speed on a Nikon DSLR (D200-300-700), is it possible that the order of the shots taken will be incorrectly named? For instance, if I shoot 10 shots in 2 seconds, will they ALWAYS be saved in the correct order, i.e., 1 thru 10? Or is it possible the order will change so that they are not named in the shooting order?"

They replied:

"In regards to your inquiry, it isn't possible that the shots get named incorrectly"

so the story about saving files by buffer order is urban legend (or a malfunctioning camera). As I said, Nikon software does not have any problems with a date sort so they must be reading some other (or additional) field(s) for the date sort function. Nikon also gives you the option of sorting by either date created or date modified, ascending or descending. So you can always put your shots back into correct shooting order by date regardless of any name changes or edits, which is what I was hoping would be possible in QU.

They're probably just sorting by file name by virtue of the fact that they are creating the file names in order in the first place.  If the camera puts the proper order on the file names, why not just leave the original file name as part of the (end result) file name?  That's the only way you're going to be able to sort them in as-shot order anyway.  Both the EXIF date/time and the file date/time won't resolve to 9 fps.

Mike

Mel - don't look them up for my sake! You might want to send them to Nikon though   They are the only ones that have the know-how to see the correct fields in the file as it is well below basic EXIF. The "creation date" is the sort field they use in their software and you can't change that with any basic editor I have found. It would be pointless to post anything here since the visible filename is changeable at will.

As for the issue, I'll just keep sorting, and editing, in Nikon NX2 and transfer only those I wish to print to QU. Unfortunately, that kinda defeats MY purpose of going from Studio to Ultimate.

If you only have the yy-mm-dd in your name sort, how do you keep it in correct shooting order? That's not enough info unless you only shoot ONE photo per day! I'm dealing, theoretically,  with shoots that typically have over 1000 shots per day, occurring in 50-75 frame bursts (such as a NASCAR road race in a given corner - although I shoot motorcycles, mostly  )...