[gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

Hi all,

recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC
"HD" HD video camera.   (The first "HD" is for high def!).

Anyway, the great feature is it records on a 40Gb hard disk, but the
annoying thing is the video files are named in hex:
MOV001
MOV002
MOV003
...
MOV009
MOV00A
MOV00B
...
MOV00F
MOV010

 and so on.  But when nautilus displays the files, it decides to do it
"cleverly", and sorts all the 001 to 009, 010 to 019, etc. files _after_
all the 00A to 00F, 01A to 01F files, so I end up with this:

MOV00A
MOV00B
...
MOV00F
MOV01A
...
MOV001
MOV002
MOV003
...
MOV009
MOV010
MOV011
...

which is in completely the wrong order, so trying to categorise / edit
the files becomes a pain, as the more files I have, the further out of
place they get!  `ls` doesn't sort it like nautilus - it does what I
expect and puts it in the right order.

so in short, is there any way around this?  Can I tell nautilus to stop
being "clever"?  I had a look in the options, but I can't find it.
(There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that
will fix everything ;)

TIA,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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