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Folder and File Numbers Out of Sequence
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<blockquote data-quote="krs" data-source="post: 1819272" data-attributes="member: 67742"><p>Thanks - that just proves the sorting doesn't work.</p><p></p><p>The hyphen and parenthesis come before the numbers and the alphabet (according to Mac 101) - in my case, there is one entry with a hyphen, then a few file names alphabetically (so far so good), but then entries starting with a hyphen again and then entries with parentheses.</p><p>Certainly doesn't follow the order listed in Mac 101 Finder file sorting.</p><p></p><p>What I also noticed just glancing through my complete sort is that the sorting algorithm seems to look at more than one character at a time and takes that into consideration - that's why a hyphen with a space as the next "character" is further up in the sorting sequence than the hyphen with a different character as the next one, but regardless, those entries and the ones with parentheses should have still sorted ahead of the alpha characters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="krs, post: 1819272, member: 67742"] Thanks - that just proves the sorting doesn't work. The hyphen and parenthesis come before the numbers and the alphabet (according to Mac 101) - in my case, there is one entry with a hyphen, then a few file names alphabetically (so far so good), but then entries starting with a hyphen again and then entries with parentheses. Certainly doesn't follow the order listed in Mac 101 Finder file sorting. What I also noticed just glancing through my complete sort is that the sorting algorithm seems to look at more than one character at a time and takes that into consideration - that's why a hyphen with a space as the next "character" is further up in the sorting sequence than the hyphen with a different character as the next one, but regardless, those entries and the ones with parentheses should have still sorted ahead of the alpha characters. [/QUOTE]
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