Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

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

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> wrote:
> > 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:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > 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 ;)

> Assuming the files are time stamped then sort by date & time instead of by name?

Good idea, but they get timestamped to the local time when they get
copied to my PC.  I could copy them with -a (?) but that doesn't help
the ones I have already...

thanks!
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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