Howdy, I have seen behavior like this once before and it had to do with handling of VFAT. FAT16 and FAT32 only really handle names of what are called the 8.3 style. Longer names are handled by a logical level called VFAT. I'll summarize, but if you want more detail, look at the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.3_filename Every long filename gets an 8.3 filename, as well. There are other entries in the FAT to store the rest of the name. On the device I looked at, if I just dragged a bunch of files to it, the device seemed to sort them oddly. When I looked at the 8.3 names associated with each file, it was obvious why they were sorting the way they were. That MP3 player is long dead, but you may have a similar situation. I found that if I dragged the files to the device one at a time, and in order, I got the results I wanted. My player was a Lexar, not an Olympus. Good luck, Ralph
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 21:01 -0400, billycarmacs wrote: > Anyone know what might be going wrong when I try to use the Finder to > copy a folder of mp3 audio files from my Mac (Leopard) to an Olympus > mp3 Player that uses MS-DOS (FAT16) format? > ... > The files get copied, but they are in the wrong order ... 09, 08,07, > 06 etc ... instead of 01,02,03, 04 ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
