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R.Wieser
Feb 25, 2013, 12:38:14 PM2/25/13
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Hello All,
Just the other day I re-noticed that the filebrowser (file explorer) doesn't
quite display the filenames in ASCI order. Example:
....
4FB99E33.DAT
4FCD66DC.DAT
04FD1641.DAT
....
It looks like Windows sorting-mechanism simply ignores the leading Zero ....
Question: Is there a setting with which that last filename is again placed
(in this example) at the top (sorts in simple alphabetical/ASCII order) ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Just the other day I re-noticed that the filebrowser (file explorer) doesn't
quite display the filenames in ASCI order. Example:
....
4FB99E33.DAT
4FCD66DC.DAT
04FD1641.DAT
....
It looks like Windows sorting-mechanism simply ignores the leading Zero ....
Question: Is there a setting with which that last filename is again placed
(in this example) at the top (sorts in simple alphabetical/ASCII order) ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Ken Springer
Feb 25, 2013, 2:05:15 PM2/25/13
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four" rather than "zero four"?
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VanguardLH
Feb 25, 2013, 6:45:20 PM2/25/13
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Numeric value (of a string portion consisting of all digits) is the same
no matter how many leading zeroes you add. Leading zeroes are not
significant characters. 4 = 04 = 004 = 0004 = 00004 = 000004 = 0000004.
Barry Schwarz
Feb 25, 2013, 6:47:56 PM2/25/13
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Google "windows sort order" with the quotes and read about your
options.
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R.Wieser
Feb 26, 2013, 4:49:45 AM2/26/13
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Hello Ken,
> I'm not that hexadecimal knowledgeable/competent, but could that
> be "oh four" rather than "zero four"?
What you see is indeed a 4-byte hexadecimal value, and this one actually
starts with 'zero four' (I'm generating those filenames myself).
Thanks for the "could be causing it" suggestion though.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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> I'm not that hexadecimal knowledgeable/competent, but could that
> be "oh four" rather than "zero four"?
starts with 'zero four' (I'm generating those filenames myself).
Thanks for the "could be causing it" suggestion though.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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R.Wieser
Feb 26, 2013, 5:19:01 AM2/26/13
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Hello Barry,
> Google "windows sort order"
Thank you for that, that (first result) "ghacks.net" article gave me back
the most logical (for me) sort-order.
And my apologies, I should have done that before asking my question here.
To my defense, I did browse thru the folder settings and found nothing in
that regard .... :-)
One question though: Its a setting in the "policies" branch of the
registry, which means its enforced onto all the users of that machine. Do
you perhaps also know where to apply the same setting, but now for a single
user ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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Barry Schwarz <schw...@dqel.com> schreef in berichtnieuws
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> Google "windows sort order"
Thank you for that, that (first result) "ghacks.net" article gave me back
the most logical (for me) sort-order.
And my apologies, I should have done that before asking my question here.
To my defense, I did browse thru the folder settings and found nothing in
that regard .... :-)
One question though: Its a setting in the "policies" branch of the
registry, which means its enforced onto all the users of that machine. Do
you perhaps also know where to apply the same setting, but now for a single
user ?
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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R.Wieser
Feb 26, 2013, 5:30:35 AM2/26/13
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Hello VanguardLH,
> Leading zeroes are not significant characters.
Very true for calculations, quite untrue when a human, in this case me,
needs
to find a certain entry in a list.
Also, I have no idea why the OS should think it should regard a set of
*filenames* (for me always just bits of text) as something else.
... As an afterthought, maybe MS should have added it as a per-folder
setting. Use it when needed, leave the other folders to be sorted normally.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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VanguardLH <V...@nguard.LH> schreef in berichtnieuws
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> Leading zeroes are not significant characters.
needs
to find a certain entry in a list.
Also, I have no idea why the OS should think it should regard a set of
*filenames* (for me always just bits of text) as something else.
... As an afterthought, maybe MS should have added it as a per-folder
setting. Use it when needed, leave the other folders to be sorted normally.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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