Sorting by DIMENSIONS incorrect?

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Terry Pinnell

If I sort a folder of photos by the Dimensions column, results are not
as I'd expect. Seems to treat the size as a plain alphanumeric field.
For example, here's an extract after the sort:
..
..
2048 x 1360
2220 x 1428
298 x 257
3182 x 2147
426 x 309
430 x 313
470 x 660
..
..

Is there anything I can do to fix that please?
 
Terry Pinnell wrote ::
If I sort a folder of photos by the Dimensions column, results are not
as I'd expect. Seems to treat the size as a plain alphanumeric field.
For example, here's an extract after the sort:
.
.
2048 x 1360
2220 x 1428
298 x 257
3182 x 2147
426 x 309
430 x 313
470 x 660
.
.

Is there anything I can do to fix that please?
Click to expand...

Install TweakUI
Go to Explorer section.
Right side, scroll down and tick "Use inituitive filename sorting"
Click ok


Good Luck, Ayush.
 
Terry Pinnell said:
If I sort a folder of photos by the Dimensions column, results are not
as I'd expect. Seems to treat the size as a plain alphanumeric field.
For example, here's an extract after the sort:
.
.
2048 x 1360
2220 x 1428
298 x 257
3182 x 2147
426 x 309
430 x 313
470 x 660
.
.

Is there anything I can do to fix that please?
Click to expand...

From further research I assume that this arises because of the odd way
XP has changed the default sort order from previous versions. But in
trying to implement the instructions here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=319827
to make a registry change to revert back to the (IMO) much more
logical sequence, I've come across a puzzle. The instructions advise
on making a new DWORD entry, NoStrCmpLogical, with Value = 1. But I
already have a NoStrCmpLogical entry. No problem I thought, I'll just
use Modify to change it. But my existing entry is not a DWORD. It
looks like this:
NoStrCmpLogical REG_BINARY 01 00 00 00
And when I try to modify it, in the Value box I see a very strange
looking entry, like this:
0000 01 00 00 00 ....
and I've left it alone for now.

Can someone clarify please?
 
Terry said:
From further research I assume that this arises because of the odd
way XP has changed the default sort order from previous versions.
But in trying to implement the instructions here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=319827
to make a registry change to revert back to the (IMO) much more
logical sequence, I've come across a puzzle. The instructions advise
on making a new DWORD entry, NoStrCmpLogical, with Value = 1. But I
already have a NoStrCmpLogical entry. No problem I thought, I'll
just use Modify to change it. But my existing entry is not a DWORD.
It looks like this:
NoStrCmpLogical REG_BINARY 01 00 00 00
And when I try to modify it, in the Value box I see a very strange
looking entry, like this:
0000 01 00 00 00 ....
and I've left it alone for now.

Can someone clarify please?
Click to expand...

Use TweakUI.
 
Ayush said:
Terry Pinnell wrote ::

Install TweakUI
Go to Explorer section.
Right side, scroll down and tick "Use inituitive filename sorting"
Click ok


Good Luck, Ayush.
Click to expand...

Thanks Ayush (and Shenan).

I think you mean ensure it's *not* ticked? Ticked = XP default, which
IMO is non-intuitive ;-) That's why I'm trying to change it!

But I see that in the excellent TweakUI (which I've used for many
years) I *already* have it unticked. So in theory I should be getting
sorting in the pre-XP mode, IOW the way I want.

I suspect there is some issue here about All Users versus Current
User. Did you see my subsequent post about the puzzle I encountered?
That was the HKCU key. But since then, I have looked at the HKLM key,
which should take priority, and there was no NoStrCmpLogical entry
there. So I've added one and will reboot shortly to see if it solves
the problem.

All rather confusing...
 
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