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blove319
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Incremental sorts funny

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Anyone else see this problem?

When renaming files I expect the %#% value to mirror the value in the leftmost column. In other words, no matter what column I sort records by I still expect the %#% value to be 1,2,3.....100....n (from top to bottom). But I've found that %#% instead sorts by it's own criteria (maybe the file creation time?) regardless of what I sort by. This ruins my renaming because I'm renaming hundreds of MP3s that must be played in a certain order (audiobook).

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Please check in Options/variables %% that the incremental number does not have the option to reset on folder change,
maybe that causes the behavior you are describing.

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That doesn't seem to make a difference.

I've attached a screenshot (note that line 12 is #88 and line 13 is #76).
I just ran an interesting experiment...
The files I'm manipulating are on a FAT32 ramdrive (Softperfect Ramdisk 3.4.7).
When I move the files to an SSD (NTFS) they *appear* to sort correctly in Godfather (could just be coincidence). Any idea why that might be?

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Re: Incremental sorts funny

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Are you using the latest beta?
Also can you please re-post the screenshot because I can't see it

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