Shadow KT Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 So, if you have a 12 groups with the same name, i.e: MBT-1 to MBT-12, if you go and try to list the units by name, Groups which have 1 infront will show up on top, instead of by order. This means that MBT-1, MBT-10/11 and 12 will show up before 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. Same with Russian same units for example, i.e: SA-10, 11, 13, 15, 19 and then it will go to SA-2, 3, 6, 8 and 9. 1 'Shadow' Everybody gotta be offended and take it personally now-a-days
Rudel_chw Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 38 minutes ago, Shadow KT said: So, if you have a 12 groups with the same name, i.e: MBT-1 to MBT-12, if you go and try to list the units by name, Groups which have 1 infront will show up on top, instead of by order. This means that MBT-1, MBT-10/11 and 12 will show up before 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. That is computer's alphabetic order ... if you check any folder in Windows you will see its content ordered the same way. If you name your units MBT-01, 02, .. 10, 11, 12 ... then it will display the way you want. 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Tippis Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 Get smarter computers. Mine sorts in the proper order without my having to adjust to its conventions. It's not a given that the simplistic per-character sorting must always be in place, especially not in a setting where it is natural (and even automated) that incremental numbering is being used on just about everything. It should be pretty darn trivial to make DCS be smarter about it as well for that exact reason. 1 ❧ ❧ Inside you are two wolves. One cannot land; the other shoots friendlies. You are a Goon. ❧ ❧
Shadow KT Posted July 10, 2021 Author Posted July 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Rudel_chw said: That is computer's alphabetic order ... if you check any folder in Windows you will see its content ordered the same way. If you name your units MBT-01, 02, .. 10, 11, 12 ... then it will display the way you want. Maybe on Windows 2000/XP from 20 years ago, or earlier. This issues has been resolved in modern software long time ago, including windows, which knows how to order numbers by numerical value. 1 'Shadow' Everybody gotta be offended and take it personally now-a-days
Rudel_chw Posted July 10, 2021 Posted July 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, Shadow KT said: Maybe on Windows 2000/XP from 20 years ago, or earlier. This issues has been resolved in modern software long time ago, including windows, which knows how to order numbers by numerical value. Silly me, you are right ... I was so used to this way of sorting that I didn't notice when Windows became smarter about it. let's hope ED will fix this bug soon. 1 For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
silverdevil Posted July 11, 2021 Posted July 11, 2021 here is a way to make the change from default. not sure how it would affect DCS in ME though. but yeah. i started my IT career in 1989 and we had a bunch of cad files. we only had 8+3 file system then so we had to be very particular how we named files. '01' comes before '1'. '0' is the first number. ~ tilde is before 0. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/91417-enable-disable-numerical-sorting-file-explorer-windows-10-a.html AKA_SilverDevil Join AKA Wardogs Email Address My YouTube “The MIGS came up, the MIGS were aggressive, we tangled, they lost.” - Robin Olds - An American fighter pilot. He was a triple ace. The only man to ever record a confirmed kill while in glide mode.
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