thepregnantgod 12 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I have about 26 drives. Currently, I have them named Disk 1 through Disk 26. However, when I sort them by the name column, it goes Disk 1, Disk 11, Disk 2, Disk 21, etc. Is there a better naming convention to use so I can sort by name? I thought using Disk A, Disk B, Disk C, but for some reason that didn't work either. I know this is OCDish...but I like to keep track of the drives and sorting by name is a good way for me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Umfriend 106 Posted March 23, 2014 Share Posted March 23, 2014 I share your pain, well not on this specific thing, I ain;t got > 9 drives, but in general. The solution I have is in the naming convention which includes preceding zeros... Yes: Disk 01, Disk 02 etc. and a lot of renaming by the time you get to disk 100 ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 umfriend is pretty much spot on. Or you could use "Ctrl00Disk00" for the name. (Ctrl short of Controller) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 thepregnantgod 12 Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thanks, didn't consider the preceding 0. I'll do that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Yeah, that can make a difference. But I've always done that, as I'm a bit OCD... (you should see how my music is organized....) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Philmatic 3 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 This is one of those long standing issues I have with Scanner/DP, sorting by preceding 0 should really be native, I shouldn't have to do it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Umfriend 106 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I wonder which software does that. Windows does not in explorer. Excel does not if you sort by a column with such values. SQL Server does not. I really can't think of software that realises that if there are numbers in a string/textfield, it should sort by parsing numbers out of text and use that as a sort parameter. In fact, this is a feature/innovation that might still be patentable ;-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 Christopher (Drashna) 631 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I wonder which software does that. Windows does not in explorer. Excel does not if you sort by a column with such values. SQL Server does not. I really can't think of software that realises that if there are numbers in a string/textfield, it should sort by parsing numbers out of text and use that as a sort parameter. In fact, this is a feature/innovation that might still be patentable ;-) Anything is patentable anymore. Depending on the country you live in. But that's another discussion. But yes, most sort "1, 10, 11, 2, 3, 4" This is one of those long standing issues I have with Scanner/DP, sorting by preceding 0 should really be native, I shouldn't have to do it. Flagged for Alex. I can't say if it will be changed .... but it definitely won't, if it's not brought up. For reference, this is the "bug" I've created for this issue: https://stablebit.com/Admin/IssueAnalysis/1169 But the actual disk number sorts properly, just not the name. And that's the issue you have, correct? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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I have about 26 drives.
Currently, I have them named Disk 1 through Disk 26. However, when I sort them by the name column, it goes Disk 1, Disk 11, Disk 2, Disk 21, etc.
Is there a better naming convention to use so I can sort by name?
I thought using Disk A, Disk B, Disk C, but for some reason that didn't work either.
I know this is OCDish...but I like to keep track of the drives and sorting by name is a good way for me.
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