Re: Pie chart importing script-success!!!!
Re: Pie chart importing script-success!!!!
- Subject: Re: Pie chart importing script-success!!!!
- From: "Arthur J. Knapp" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:05:15 -0400
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 19:38:02 +0200
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From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Pie chart importing script-success!!!!
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At 11:53 AM -0400 16/10/02, Arthur J. Knapp wrote:
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> Someone said that it had to do with the HFS file system,
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> but then why do they seem to "mostly" come back sorted?
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My guess about that is that those folders that you obtained by
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copying from another volume (you rarely make and fill new folders
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from scratch, n'est-ce pas) get copied in alphabetical order. This
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can be checked easily: launch the copy of a big folder, stop it in
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the middle (for instance, smash violently the computer), you'll see
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that only the first items in alphabetical order were copied.
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Once such an ordered folder is created, new items get appended to the
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(formerly ordered) list. One would be able to check that the
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non-ordered items are the recent ones.
You are absolutely correct, thank you Emmanuel. An easier experiment is
simply to create three new folders named "zzz", "mmm", and "aaa" in that
order. The come back in their creation order, (or more accurately, in the
order they were "added" to their containing folder).
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