Alphabetical sorting

[synaesthesia]

Hiya,

This is a known bug^H^H^H^feature in Win7 (and 8) that certain file types do not sort alphabetically correctly.

For instance, in a folder structure of AVI or similar media files, the following should be the correct order:

Back to the Future
Back to the Future 2
Back to the Future 3
The Naked Gun
The Naked Gun 2
The Naked Gun 3

Instead, we get the fallacious

Back to the Future 2
Back to the Future 3
Back to the Future
The Naked Gun 2
The Naked Gun 3
The Naked Gun

Has anyone stumbled across something 3rd party that may solve that? It drives me absolutely batcrap bonkers looking at my folders in such a way (OCD!)

[FN-GM]

Annoys me as well. I ended up prefixing them 1. 2. 3. etc...

[Cache]

Hasn't Windows always (annoyingly) done that?

I do the opposite of @FN-GM and just put 1 at the end of the first one.

[Arthur]

Folders and/or dates (or do what @Cache said)?

Back to the Future \ [1985] Back to the Future
                     [1989] Back to the Future - Part II
                     [1990] Back to the Future - Part III

     The Naked Gun \ [1988] From the Files of Police Squad!
                     [1991] The Smell of Fear
                     [1994] The Final Insult

If you use the actual names of The Naked Gun films, they will sort in the correct order.

[Steve21]

Hasn't Windows always (annoyingly) done that?

I do the opposite of @FN-GM and just put 1 at the end of the first one.

Nope. They changed in Win7. Before Win7 it sorted based upon filename without extension. Thus BTTF < BTTF 1 < BTTF 2

In Win7 they just do a conversion to ascii, and sort it. Thus BTTF.avi is higher than BTTF 2.avi as the "." is higher value than "space" in ascii. Thus coming 2nd in line.

Steve