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Maybe this is to do with the way you are copying the files? As I said, I did three files as three separate copies. I repeated the test using Windows XP with the same results. However, a dir listing from a command prompt lists them in reverse alphabetical order, i.e.
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#Xxcopy windows 10 vs ztreewin windows 7#
Windows 7 continues to list them (by default) in alphabetical order when using Windows Explorer to view the source or theĭestination. Apologies if this is already understood, but your text is too vague for me to get a handle on just how deep an understanding you have.įrom a Windows perspective, I have copied 3 files individually to a memory stick formatted with FAT32 in reverse alpabetical order. also, two identical Ford models are not forced What matters is the brand and model of the player. However, you keep referring to "the car" as if you think it matters whether it is a Ford or Datsun. Neither am I an expert in in-car players and their foibles. I am predoiminantly a Windows/Microsoft man. I am going to start out by saying that playing audio is not a big thing for me so in that area my expertise is limited. The stuff about my car's player as background to why I wanted to do it. What I am really asking is, why don't FAT formatted USB sticks write file names in their directories in the same order that the files are copied to the sticks (which is what FAT formatted disks supposedly do), and is there a way to "fix" it - I just included But if it can't be done any other way, I'll probably have to do that - I have found a program that will sort the file names in the directory of a FAT formatted disk into alphabetical order. It gets the artist name from the ID3 tag (?). I have considered prefixing the file names with 001, 002 etc, but I don't want to do that if it can be avoided, since the car player uses the file name for the song title in the display - why it doesn't use the song title from the ID3 tag I don't know, because Those people want their songs to be played in alphabetical order, but I don't. The car player definitely plays the songs in the order that it finds them on the (FAT32) USB stick, which is the same order that they are listed in the USB's directory, and is not alphabetical for FAT - and in other forums people have said that it is the Hits that have nothing to do with what I am searching for, or no hits at all if I try to be very specific in the search.ĭoes anyone have any ideas on this? Is there a way to force a FAT disk/USB to order the files in the order I copy them? I am finding it very hard to frame a Google search on this problem – I either get millions of However that’s not what I want, since I want the files in a specific (not alphabetical) order. I have found programs that will sort the file order on a FAT drive. The USB is optimised for quick removal, so write caching is disabled on it. It always seems to write the files out of order, and it seems to be in the same order, although I haven’t checked that thoroughly (there are about 250 files). The USB was initially blank, and I created a new directory just before copying the files, so it’s not that it’s putting the new files into “holes” in the directory caused by previous file deletions. I have found that just renaming the files also changes the order that they are displayed with DIR (still with no sorting options specified). from the Windows command prompt, with no sorting options specified), it shows the files in the same order as the car plays them, which is not the order However the car plays the files in a different order, and when I do a DIR listing on the USB device (i.e. To the device (unlike NTFS), which is what I want – I copied the files to the USB, one by one (well, actually I created a BAT file to do it), in the order that I wanted the files to play.
#Xxcopy windows 10 vs ztreewin manual#
My car can play music files from a FAT32 USB stick, and according to the car’s manual it plays the files in the order that they are found on the USB stick and elsewhere I have read that the order of the files on FAT devices is in the order that they are written