VV6 - order of folders - lexicographical sorting

Alice · Joined: 29 Jan 2015 Posts: 293

I've heard the sort order of folders in Windows 11 referred to as 'lexicographical sorting' and also 'logical string ordering semantics'

either way, VV should display folders in the same order as Windows (in its Comparison Window) ?

example :

W11 shows 'numerical' folders as (sort order 'Name / Ascending') :

3-1
3-2
5-1
5-2
5-3
11-2
11-3
13-1

VV6 shows them in the Comparison Window as :

11-2
11-3
13-1
3-1
3-2
5-1
5-2
5-3

so if I conduct a visual check between W11 Explorer and VV6 its quite confusing.

tks

A.

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8798

Hi Alice,

We will check this: the sorting in ViceVersa is highly optimized in order to be able to sort millions of files very quickly and efficiently, but maybe it's possible to have an option for this without too much impact in terms of speed.

I am not sure if Windows can be set to sort like ViceVersa to compare, e.g. pure Alphabetical instead of Natural sorting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_sort_order

https://superuser.com/questions/1535169/windows-alphabetical-file-sorting-why-do-spaces-have-special-treatment

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