Re: Copy and Paste Sorting - Order Not Preserved (But Changed)

It also copies in a more random order, which I haven't been able to figure
out being based on any sort of ordering system, when copying from CDs or to
and from the MP3 Player.

This is an XP question, I am not going to buy a new OS for this - I'd like
to fix it. If your saying I'm cheap in doing that, I don't care.

As to Sync&Go, I can't with my MP3 Player.

Peter

"Mungo Bulge" wrote:

> Never noticed, however I use Windows Media Player to Rip, Burn, Sync
> and catalogue my music and videos. No problems with things not going
> in the order I want them, but then I'm easy to satisfy, but I'm not
> cheap. ;)
> If that doesn't work, I resort to Sync&Go for Pocket PC and/or Phone.
>
> "PJPeter29" <PJPeter29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FA9E5AD0-9AEC-4F44-B98F-8EC5E204C560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | Hi, my problem is that XP uses a different algorithm when it chooses
> how to
> | sort files in a folder and the order when copying and pasting - and
> it
> | doesn't preserve the order of the original folder when copying from
> within
> | it.
> |
> | This can be shown very easily, just create a folder, create a new
> Next
> | Document, don't change the name. Now make a bunch of copies of this,
> it will
> | start to name them names such as 'Copy (2) of New Text
> Document.txt' and
> | 'Copy (10) of New Text Document.txt' (in that order). Now create a
> second
> | folder somewhere, and select all these files and either Drag and
> Drop them
> | over, or copy and paste them. You'll notice that in this second
> folder, the
> | order is different - especially noticable because the order of Copy
> (2) and
> | Copy (10) is now different.
> |
> | The order of the original folder doesn't matter, Windows chooses to
> copy the
> | files over always based on the resulting ordering you see in the
> second
> | folder. This may be based on the underlying Directory Structure of
> the
> | folder, but it is terribly annoying.
> |
> | But, if you copy the entire folder, it is all in the correct order
> | (confirmed by copying large files to an MP3 Player, see below).
> |
> | I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2. The issue is especially troubling for
> me
> | because I like to copy files to my MP3 Player in order, and for it
> to stop
> | copying when it runs out of space. Because of this issue, my file
> sare often
> | out of order, and it takes extra time to delete the ones that don't
> fit, go
> | back and start copying different earlier files, etc... It mostly
> bugs me when
> | I'm copying parts of CDs or audiobooks to the player, when I already
> have
> | part of the content copied into a folder. I've been frustraited by
> this issue
> | for a very long time, but thought it was due to some other program I
> had
> | installed, such as antivirus or antispyware software, but it still
> happens on
> | a fresh install of XP SP2, on multiple computers.
> |
> | If anyone has a fix for this or any suggestions it would be greatly
> | appreciated.
> |
> | Thanks,
> | Peter
>
>
>
.

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