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Odd sorting
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 11:56 pm
by MSpagni
There is a (new) problem with the empty directories.
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Panel A: Panel B:
AFile1 .\DirA\DirB AFile1 .\DirA\DirB
AFile2 .\DirA\DirB AFile2 .\DirA\DirB
AFile3 .\DirA\DirB AFile3 .\DirA\DirB
DirC .\DirA\DirB
DirD .\DirA\DirB DirD .\DirA\DirB
NFile1 .\DirA\DirB NFile1 .\DirA\DirB
XFile1 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile2 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile3 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
N.B. Sort first directory by relative path, ascending order and combine first and second directory.
It's very annoying to have the empty directory not immediately above the correspondent full one.
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:48 pm
by psguru
I'm afraid I don't understand. DirC and DirD are empty directories, and they behave just like files of DirB. If DirC (on the right) is placed after NFile1, then it's not following the sort order.
Looks like what you want is:
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Panel A: Panel B:
AFile1 .\DirA\DirB AFile1 .\DirA\DirB
AFile2 .\DirA\DirB AFile2 .\DirA\DirB
AFile3 .\DirA\DirB AFile3 .\DirA\DirB
DirD .\DirA\DirB DirD .\DirA\DirB
NFile1 .\DirA\DirB NFile1 .\DirA\DirB
DirC .\DirA\DirB
XFile1 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile2 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile3 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
Now, imagine that you have .\DirA\DirB\Dirb2\XFile1 on the right. Then the result of your suggestion would look like this:
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Panel A: Panel B:
AFile1 .\DirA\DirB AFile1 .\DirA\DirB
AFile2 .\DirA\DirB AFile2 .\DirA\DirB
AFile3 .\DirA\DirB AFile3 .\DirA\DirB
DirD .\DirA\DirB DirD .\DirA\DirB
NFile1 .\DirA\DirB NFile1 .\DirA\DirB
XFile1 .\DirA\DirB\Dirb2
DirC .\DirA\DirB
XFile1 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile2 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile3 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
and the relative path sorting of Panel B is incorrect. The current version will show this correctly:
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Panel A: Panel B:
AFile1 .\DirA\DirB AFile1 .\DirA\DirB
AFile2 .\DirA\DirB AFile2 .\DirA\DirB
AFile3 .\DirA\DirB AFile3 .\DirA\DirB
DirC .\DirA\DirB
DirD .\DirA\DirB DirD .\DirA\DirB
NFile1 .\DirA\DirB NFile1 .\DirA\DirB
XFile1 .\DirA\DirB\Dirb2
XFile1 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile2 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
XFile3 .\DirA\DirB\DirC
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:01 am
by MSpagni
Suppose you have a directory that's empty in a panel and full in the other.
Very often you can not immediately see that the things are as they are because the entries are more than a screenful apart and, often, even if they are closer, you can not immediately match them.
I feel this very very uncomfortable.
Luckily, if you have an empty directory without apparently any correspondent item in the other pane EDP dont' let you copy it to the other pane! (Yuk!)
In a word: I by far prefer the sort order of version 5.0, irrelevant of the presence or not of the "<empty directory>" label.
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:45 pm
by MSpagni
Just in case I didn't convey correctly my feelings: the new sorting order is so much uncomfortable to me that I had to go back to version 5.0.
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:41 am
by psguru
We are looking into this. The way empty directories are shown will not change but perhaps there's a way to change the way they are sorted.
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:05 am
by MSpagni
Right that.
It's ok how the empty directories appear; what's terrible is where (i.e. the way they are sorted)!
Thank you very much.
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:42 pm
by psguru
Build 5.5.0.3 restores the 5.0 method of sorting empty directories.
Re: Odd sorting
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 12:09 am
by MSpagni
Phew!
Thank you very, very, very much.