I have a family photo album which is perfectly organised into the folders I want, however when I copy the dvd to the ps3 the stupid thing organises it into folders by exif data which is incorrect and not how I want them sorted anyway. How do I get it to copy the folders properly? I can't believe I have to ask this, the system is so unintuitive and badly designed it's unbelievable.
PS3 Photo sorting?
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Because they are on DVD, I think, you are stuck. (never copied from a DVD before).
I normally copy pictures via a USB stick/HDD. I stick my folders under a top level folder called "PICTURE" and then copy the folders to my PS3. This gives them all album (like folders) names based on date (but retains the contents of each folder) so I just rename the folders on the PS3.
Might be a better way to do this, but this is the only way I have found, and I don't do it often enough to care/change my method. It is very annoying the PS3 uses "Album" names as opposed to normal folders like a PC filesystem does.
You would have to copy your DVD to a memory stick or HDD to achieve the same (I am assuming your DVD is read only).
p.s. Stick structure looks like:
PICTURE>holiday2009
PICTURE>wedding
PICTURE>random
You can use "Display All" and just copy your own folders I guess, the PS3 created the PICTURE folder for me once, so I always just copy below that folder.
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Thanks for the input I'll try using a stick, it's just infuriating as I've recently been studying HCI and this kind of design stuff is just so basic it defies belief that a £300 device can't sort some folders properly.
It might work with your DVD, did you just "copy" the folders from the Picture menu? If you did it has probably created "Album" names for them but the names will just be dates which you have to rename (from PS3) to be "holidays", "wedding" etc. But each "date" album will contain the same as the original folder did, on your DVD.
rp2000
You can make a playlist for your photos called say "google", "PS3 Folders" 
, or " Holiday 09" etc. Any photos you want can be put into which ever folder you want, you can also put them in date order or device order etc. Have you also tried the photo album app you can get from the photos section of the XMb, you can also do many types of sorting by age/ smiling or how ever you want.
, or " Holiday 09" etc. Any photos you want can be put into which ever folder you want, you can also put them in date order or device order etc. Have you also tried the photo album app you can get from the photos section of the XMb, you can also do many types of sorting by age/ smiling or how ever you want.It hasn't done that, it creates about 40 folders named, "Jan 2003, "feb 2003", etc based on the false exif data, some of which only contain 4 files. How come I can create a program in java in about 5 minutes that sorts them fine, but Sony can't do it?
Have you pressed Square and sorted by "Album" name, sounds to me like you are ordering by "Month"? I just copied 2 folders via USB stick (with proper names) and the PS3 just created 2 albums called "2010-02-10" & "2010-02-10-002" which I just renamed. Both have photos from random dates. (I am guessing it is naming the albums by the date I imported them?)
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Might be something to do with the DVD being read only and the dates?
Either try Smallios74's Playlist idea (although to be honest I think playlists are long winded if you already have your own preferred folder structures).
Or try copying your DVD folders to a USB stick and copying them (zap what's on the PS3 at the moment) and maybe you will get the same results as me, leaving you with folders turned into Albums, that just need renaming.
rp2000
Off the top of my head, when you copy the contents of a DVD to a PC or USB stick, they retain the read only flag? Maybe that will explain the differences we are seeing, as my photos were on my Mac to start with and not read only?
I don't have any DVDs handy with photos on them, Last try would be copy the folders to your PC, remove read only flag (if it is there) then copy those folders to USB.
My theory being that each folder has a folder created date, which creates a unique album on the PS3 but your folders all have read only flags etc.
Could all be a waste of time and maybe something to do with the fact I am using a Mac and you are probably using a PC (can't think what though).
rp2000