Bizarre Number Sort of Files Mac

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami brahma at hindu.org
Fri Mar 9 13:31:16 EST 2018


On Mac, on disk,  you will finder files in order

_categories.txt
_date.txt
_title.txt
01-11-04-09-09_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
01-11-04-09-09_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
02-02-10-02-03_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
02-02-10-02-03_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
03-06-01-10-10_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
04-09-09-08-08_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
04-09-09-08-08_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
05-05-02-12-12_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
06-12-05-03-02_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
06-12-05-03-02_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
07-07-12-07-07_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
07-07-12-07-07_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
08-10-03-04-04_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
08-10-03-04-04_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
09-08-06-06-06_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
09-08-06-06-06_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
10-03-11-05-05_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
10-03-11-05-05_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
11-01-07-11-11_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
11-01-07-11-11_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
12-04-08-01-01_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
12-04-08-01-01_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
gallery-story.txt

Now when open that for file import, I see in the dialogue (dimmed) 

04-09-09-08-08_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
02-02-10-02-03_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
11-01-07-11-11_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
09-08-06-06-06_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
01-11-04-09-09_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
12-04-08-01-01_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
11-01-07-11-11_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
02-02-10-02-03_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
04-09-09-08-08_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
01-11-04-09-09_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
09-08-06-06-06_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
12-04-08-01-01_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
10-03-11-05-05_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
.DS_Store
06-12-05-03-02_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
07-07-12-07-07_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
_categories.txt
_title.txt
08-10-03-04-04_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
_date.txt
gallery-story.txt
07-07-12-07-07_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
10-03-11-05-05_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
06-12-05-03-02_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt
03-06-01-10-10_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
08-10-03-04-04_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg
05-05-02-12-12_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg

now, put those files into a field, with still get the "amazing" order… 

on mouseup
     sort lines fld "theFiles" ascending numeric 
end mouseup

I get the  same result?  It is in "ascending numeric" does see the files at all?

If I sort lines by

on mouseup
sort lines fld "theFiles" ascending text
end mouseup

Then they they same as finder. 


Try again, to sort of line by ascending number file, does not changes files …
do not change from the text sort which remain into the order "ascending text"

What is going on? It seems that the ascending numeric, just doesn’t see the files at all?

BR









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