Comment No stable sort in Explorer! (Score 1) 505
One of the things that's always just really bugged me is that when you sort files in an explorer window by name, type, size, etc, it never does a stable sort. It tries to be helpful by, if you sort by type, listing all files of the same type in order by filename, but that's not what I freaking want!
Try to find, say, the largest txt file in a directory. Well, I'll just sort by size, then by type, right? WRONG! WTF is wrong with a stable sort?
A related thing is that it's impossible to sort by extension. It's pretty common for all image files to have the same "Type" (e.g., "Irfanview"), which makes it a real pain in the ass if you've just done a conversion and want to select JUST .jpg files, because sorting them by type mixes all image files together, and sorts them by filename.
I think a real useful program could just crawl through all your file associtaions and make it so .foo files are just called "FOO" files. That would also solve the problem of having to look under "W" for mp3s, asfs, and rars, etc, which should be under, oh, I don't know, maybe M, A, and R?!?
Try to find, say, the largest txt file in a directory. Well, I'll just sort by size, then by type, right? WRONG! WTF is wrong with a stable sort?
A related thing is that it's impossible to sort by extension. It's pretty common for all image files to have the same "Type" (e.g., "Irfanview"), which makes it a real pain in the ass if you've just done a conversion and want to select JUST
I think a real useful program could just crawl through all your file associtaions and make it so