Re: folder order
Re: folder order
- Subject: Re: folder order
- From: Andrew Oliver <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:46:31 -0800
On 4/1/05 9:25 AM, "Steve Suranie" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> For all intents and purposes, consider it random. <<
>
> Anyone know why it's this way?
As I understand it, it's up to the underlying filesystem the disk is
formatted with, not something that AppleScript is doing directly. Normally
HFS+ (the Mac default) returns directory listings in an alphabetical order,
but other filesystems may use other orders. UFS may use inodes while a
server volume running NTFS may use something different.
It's not that it truly *is* random, just that it's based on some facet you
can't predict and therefore is unreliable.
> Seems to me if I was building AS Beta one of
> the first things I would have done is default alphabetically by filename how
> folders and folder items are listed and provide an easy option for
> programmers to list them via other methods -
>
> set thisList to every item of thisFolder sort by filename - or file size,
> or kind, ...you get the idea.
As I said, for some time now the Finder has hinted at a 'sort' command, but
it's always listed as 'not available yet'. Why it's included in the
dictionary I don't know since it's just a tease.
Andrew
:)
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