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Dropbox does not order by name correctly
I sometimes view folders at the Dropbox web site (I am looking at a section that is not synched locally to any other machine).
When I try to order the folders by name, I get an unexpected order... see the attached screenshot. I have searched the other entries in this forum and can't find anything that addresses this.
Is this the expected behavior? I would have thought that the folders beginning with "1984.." would be listed above any of the folders starting with "20...". The folders that start with "20..." are ordered the way I would expect.
Is there some way to change this, so the order is makes more sense (at least to me).
Hi schmidjd,
Number ordering impose order by numbers as such (continuous sequence of digit), not order by digit (digit by digit). In this context despite of 2 is bigger than 1, 198411 is bigger than 2022. 🙂
If 198411 represents year 1984 and month 11, better include some separator (e.g. space or underbar). Instead of 198411, name it 1984_11, for instance.
Hope this helps.
Hi schmidjd,
Number ordering impose order by numbers as such (continuous sequence of digit), not order by digit (digit by digit). In this context despite of 2 is bigger than 1, 198411 is bigger than 2022. 🙂
If 198411 represents year 1984 and month 11, better include some separator (e.g. space or underbar). Instead of 198411, name it 1984_11, for instance.
Hope this helps.
- Ok, that makes sense if it’s ordering by the value of the first contiguous set of numerals and treating it as a number. I thought it would be just a simple alphanumeric sort. I’ll think about updating my naming scheme.
