Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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

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

HTH,
Mark
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