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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:59:38
Message-Id: 1177630358.12984.5.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus by Mark Knecht
1 On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 04:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On 4/25/07, Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au> wrote:
3 > > Hi all,
4 > >
5 > > recently I borrowed (and will probably soon buy a related model) a JVC
6 > > "HD" HD video camera. (The first "HD" is for high def!).
7 > >
8 > > Anyway, the great feature is it records on a 40Gb hard disk, but the
9 > > annoying thing is the video files are named in hex:
10 > <SNIP>
11 > >
12 > > which is in completely the wrong order, so trying to categorise / edit
13 > > the files becomes a pain, as the more files I have, the further out of
14 > > place they get! `ls` doesn't sort it like nautilus - it does what I
15 > > expect and puts it in the right order.
16 > >
17 > > so in short, is there any way around this? Can I tell nautilus to stop
18 > > being "clever"? I had a look in the options, but I can't find it.
19 > > (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that
20 > > will fix everything ;)
21
22 > Assuming the files are time stamped then sort by date & time instead of by name?
23
24 Good idea, but they get timestamped to the local time when they get
25 copied to my PC. I could copy them with -a (?) but that doesn't help
26 the ones I have already...
27
28 thanks!
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30 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
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32 There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
33 paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
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