This is a question about the Windows Explorer sorted order. It seems a basic question but I have not found an answer. Here I use Python to show the correct order and a screenshot to show the Windows 11 order. Windows is parsing the name and treating a sequence of digits as a single value. My question is how to configure Widows to display the names in the expected order?
import os
direc = './test/'
if not os.path.isdir(direc):
os.makedirs(direc)
files = ['a02.txt', 'a3a.txt', 'a03.txt', 'a04.txt', 'a2a.txt']
for file in files:
open(direc+file, 'a')
for filename in os.listdir(direc):
print(filename)
Result (as expected):
a02.txt
a03.txt
a04.txt
a2a.txt
a3a.txt
Screenshot of Windows 11 File Explorer:
You can try disabling "numerical sorting" like this
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
DWORD 32-bit
entry with name NoStrCmpLogical
and set value to 1