On the other hand. Changing the setting to the other sort behavior does fix
this problem in Vista. So I'll do without numerical sorting since it doesn't
work and use the old style which does.
Thanks,
chas
"R. C. White" wrote:

Hi, Chas.

You might find some insight into the sorting algorithm in this KB article:
The sort order for files and folders whose names contain numerals is
different in Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 than it is
in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/319827

Since I don't have the problem myself, I haven't studied this thoroughly,
but It should answer some questions for you.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64

"chasgl" wrote in message
...
Since the space is the lowest value we were counting on it ALWAYS being
sorted first. What is actually happening is that it is SOMETIMES being
sorted first. I must have been unclear with my post. The list starts out
with the spaces first then it puts the dashes in the list and the spaces
last.
It certainly matches the definition of strange. If you are right that
spaces
should always be first the it also matches the definition of broken.
Thanks for trying to help.
Chas

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

That strange thing would happen because dashes, spaces and other
punctuation
marks in file or folder names are alphabetized as well as letters and
numbers. If you check a chart of character codes you'll find that a
blank
space is the lowest possible character code and therefore will always be
sorted to the top of a list. This has been the way it has always worked
in
Windows. It can't be "fixed" because it's not "broken".

"chasgl" wrote in message
...
My sweety and I take pictures and store them in folders. I label mine
like
this 2009 09 22. My sweety does 2009-09-22. We figured that way they
would
appear by date and each of ours would be separate. But the order comes
out
like this
2009 08 27 Near Ali and Saida's mostly biking
2009 08 28 Saida and Ali return Arc de Triumph and Tour Effel
a bunch of other folders
2009-01-04. Dhyana-Terri in town.breakfast
2009-02-27. Party-Selim.Saida,Ali.Dan.Matt
.
.
.
2009-09-14 Lemgo
2009-09-23 Austin Property
2009 08 29 Sacre-coer
2009 08 30. Vaux-Le-Vicomte. Ali+M+C

So first are some with 2009space etc
then some 2009- etc
then some 2009space etc

Why would this strange thing happen? Any way to fix it?
Thanks,
Chas