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Lorand · 07-11-2004, 10:28 AM

I have a huge number of documents that are named by numbers. The documents are pages of a large book and the number represents the page number of the pages from that documents in that book. And some of the documents contain more than one page.
For example, the following files: 365.doc and 138139.doc are pages 365 and 138-139. If I select "Arrange icons by name" in XP the file 365.doc appears before 138139.doc (since the number 365 < number 138139). In most OSs the folder listing would be ok, since the files would be sorted ascending by the first character, then by the second and so on.
Is there a setting in XP to sort correctly these files?

07-11-2004, 10:28 AM	#1 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Arrange icons by... in xp I have a huge number of documents that are named by numbers. The documents are pages of a large book and the number represents the page number of the pages from that documents in that book. And some of the documents contain more than one page. For example, the following files: 365.doc and 138139.doc are pages 365 and 138-139. If I select "Arrange icons by name" in XP the file 365.doc appears before 138139.doc (since the number 365 < number 138139). In most OSs the folder listing would be ok, since the files would be sorted ascending by the first character, then by the second and so on. Is there a setting in XP to sort correctly these files?