This approach will also work in keeping multiple documents in date order in a folder.
If you use the format 2009 10 27 at the beginning of the file name the documents will be in date order. Remember to make this work the month must be two digits; in other words February is not 2, it is 02. Respectfully, Russell J. Thomas, Jr. THOMAS & ASSOCIATES www.californiaemployersattorneys.com Orange County Office 4121 Westerly Place, Suite 101 Newport Beach, California 92660 T: (949) 752-0101 F: (949) 257-4756 M: (949) 466-7238 Beverly Hills Office 9107 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 450 Beverly Hills, California 90210 T: (310) 461-3561 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Justice Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:57 PM To: blind computing Subject: [Blind-Computing] MAINTAINING THE ORDER OF MULTIPLE FILES ON A DISK I'm not sure how many of you will find this helpful but it took me so long to sort it out, I decided to share my experience in hopes that I can save someone else the grief. here's the scenario. You have a CD you are creating and you want to keep the files in order. In my case, they were chapters in a book I had written. I tried everything but for some odd reason, the files would be loaded in some kind of random order. I tried labeling them with numbers having multiple digits such as: chapter 001.mp3 No, that didn't work and Chapter 17 ended up right after Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 ended somewhere in the pack. Then I remembered the way that Freedom Scientific labels their files on a training disk. The numbers have to be first and they must be absolutely precise. That's the only way. here's an example of how I finally labeled those chapters and they stayed in the correct order. 1.1 CHAPTER 1.MP3 1.2 CHAPTER 2.MP3 1.3 CHAPTER 3.MP3 Apparently, when you use the List command available from the View menu, the files appear in order but they don't stay that way unless the decimal system is used. if you have several books on the same disk, either divide them into folders or use a progressive system. My book has four parts so I used 1.xx for the first section, 2.xx for the next and so on. For some brainyacs like Rick and David, this may be second nature. But for someone like me who is more of a writer than a computer person, I was so relieved when my method finally succeeded. My thanks to the people at Freedom Scientific for giving me the idea. it was David who introduced me to the View menu and told me how to list files in any folder. While in the folder but without an open file, press Alt V for the View menu. Then, to arrange the files in a list, press the L key and the list will be displayed. John and Linda Justice with guide dogs Jake and Zachary Sent from my HP laptop computer. PERSONAL E-MAIL: [email protected] For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
