[Bug]: Images aren't opening in correct order

[Dan33185]

Describe the bug

Steps to reproduce

1. Open folder
2. Open image using FlyPhotos integrated with explorer.
3. Scroll through images

Expected behavior

I expected the images to be in order of time taken, or file name.

Actual behavior

The images opened out of order.

Image format (if related to a specific file)

No response

FlyPhotos version

2.7.0

Build source

GitHub MSI

Windows version

Windows 10 22H2

Architecture

x64

Additional context

I'm having an issue where FlyPhotos is opening photos in the wrong order. I am assuming it's because of the way they are named, but I expected FlyPhotos would open them in the way they are listed in explorer. For example, I have files named:

Saltydog-5-15-26 (1).jpg
Saltydog-5-15-26 (3).jpg
Saltydog-5-15-26 (12).jpg

So the order they should be opened is 1,3,12. But, FlyPhotos is opening them 1,12,3, and I'm assuming it's because of the 1 in front, there's no leading zero. But, I can't find a setting to force it to open in order of date taken, so I'm not sure if this is a bug or expected behavior.

[riyasy]

Fly uses the exact same order in which files are presented in explorer.

[Dan33185]

But it doesn't, otherwise I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of opening a report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q48ZyKFbsg

[riyasy]

Close Fly.
Delete the log at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp\FlyPhotos\FlyPhotos.log
Open the said file from that folder.
And please paste the log.

Just to know whether interacting with Explorer is failing.

[Dan33185]

2026-08-04T11:48:36.358|Error|.|GetFileListFromExplorer failed with HRESULT: -2147467259
2026-08-04T11:48:36.400|Trace|.|Discovered 3 files in 102 ms
2026-08-04T11:48:43.340|Info|FlyPhotos.Program.Main|PhotoDisplayController disposed.

[riyasy]

Fly is failing to get files from explorer (means explorer sort order, filtering, multi folder file view from filtering) etc wont work.
It just gets files from same folder alphabetically sorted.
Was it like this from the beginning or you are a new user of Fly?

[Dan33185]

I've used it for a couple months, but this just started happening yesterday.

[riyasy]

Might be MS has started pushing some updates to Explorer which may broken our feature.
Do you remember installing something new or any policy update or anything happening in the recent days.

Anyway, I might need to create a test app or Fly with detailed log to debug this issue.

[Dan33185]

Looks like the last update in Windows Update was July 17th. I'm running Windows 10, so updates are pretty infrequent.

[riyasy]

Ok. Shall check.

[ittroll]

Explorer sort order is working fine for me (Windows 11 fully patched).
I can sort by name, date modified, date taken, size, etc. and this is respected by Fly when displaying.

[riyasy]

@Dan33185

Can you please check with this?

Install MSI or run Fly directly from the publish folder
I added diagnostic code to find how the explorer enumeration fails.
Please check FlyPhotos.log and check error codes in the log.

MSI - https://github.com/riyasy/FlyPhotos/actions/runs/31786737075/artifacts/9213894021
Publish Folder - https://github.com/riyasy/FlyPhotos/actions/runs/31786737075/artifacts/9213892819