For edlin users

Ben C wrote:
On 2010-02-27, Nate Nagel wrote:
On 02/26/2010 07:14 PM, SMS wrote:

When copying folders to a USB stick I found that Windows did not copy in
alphabetical order, even when I was careful to not have leading 0's or
blanks. I.e. D01T02.mp3 would not necessarily be copied over before
D01T10.mp3.
That's astonishingly annoying.

If I were less lazy, I'd try to run a test to see if Linux handled that
correctly, but despite the fact that I'm obviously sitting in front of
my computer, and I have a USB stick in my pocket, I... well... yeah.

It has more to do with the filesystem on the other end. Usually the
order in which you copy the files has no bearing on the order in which
they're listed on the other end.

Well I kind of understand the logic used by the car receiver. If you
have an album of music, and each MP3 file has the song name, then
alphabetical order is not going to be the same as the order they were on
the CD. If you want to copy albums over, and have the songs play in the
original order, then you copy each track over in the order you want them
played.

For audiobooks, I generally put each original CD in a separate folder,
and name the tracks in the format of DxxTyy, which keeps them in proper
order if you look at them in a directory alphabetically. But if I drag
the whole folder over from the PC to the USB stick the files inside are
not copied in order which screws up the playback. I even tried messing
with the file attributes on the USB stick, changing the time stamp, but
it didn't help.