From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HhDs9-0008QK-If for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:59:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3QNvsGs019239; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:57:54 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out3.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3QNrP3N014290 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:53:26 GMT Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E452F133F53 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:53:21 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0704260441r6cc5eab5q45728cbf63c57fa9@mail.gmail.com> References: <1177568117.10103.21.camel@orpheus> <5bdc1c8b0704260441r6cc5eab5q45728cbf63c57fa9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:02:38 +0930 Message-Id: <1177630358.12984.5.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c8c301b8-aa7e-44c9-a4ed-acb4e24c07fb X-Archives-Hash: fdb34ad30ba1b6eb6df80bd7512b4ac3 On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan 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: > > > > > 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! -- Iain Buchanan There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list