There are a few preference settings which control what you see in Caja.
First, be sure to choose your preferred mode for
* Sort folders before files (remove check if you want them intermingled.
Second, choose default list view
* By Name will give you what you want (numbers before letters)
Also, people need to watch where they click on a window (avoid column
headers) in order to change the "focus". Otherwise, you could
inadvertently change to sort by type, or date, or any other heading
other than the one you expect.
One thing to watch (with Caja) is that the numeric sort appears to be
"slanted", in that Caja appears to parse out all the leading digits
(/and keep in mind that leading zeros are ignored in this equation/),
and sort those separately from the remainder of the filename's string
which, in my view, is bizarre in the extreme! As a consequence, you get
repeated sequential groupings of 1-digit, 2-digit, 3-digit, etc.
leading-numerics sorted numerically from 1-9, followed by another
grouping sorted from 1-9, etc.!!! I never encountered such bizzareness
until Caja, and that applies to both Icon and List views.
Also, the "." in the filename string, not counting the "." which is
considered part of the suffix, as well as the "-", "_", appear to be
placed between "0" and "1" in the digit precedence list, as per this list
1946010-OCT
1946-10-OCT
1946.10-OCT
1946_10-OCT
1946110-OCT
1946210-OCT
Eric
On 2025-06-29 14:41, Nash JC - NCF via linux wrote:
My wife was working on family history photos and complained her files
went missing.
She was happy working in Double Commander (CD), which had the files
showing, but when she
tried Caja or Thunar to get icons so she could see thumbnails, they
"disappeared".
Actually they were at the bottom of the list.
Notes: 1) Caja won't open my JNJpgCom.py program properly. DC and
Thunar do.
2) DC, we just discovered, has a View/Thumbnails. Good!
I ran a bunch of file managers. Here's the results,
File manager presentation of files by name sorting
yyyymmdd files seem to be at end in many file managers
mc -- CLI -- correct order
Double Commander -- correct
Caja -- wrong order
Thunar -- wrong order
Nautilus -- wrong order
dolphin -- wrong order
konqueror -- wrong order
krusader -- correct
nemo -- wrong order
pcmanfm -- wrong order, did not close properly
nnn -- CLI -- wrong order
Looks like some common code to sort files by name is misbehaving. I'll
follow this with the bug report
text which shows the types of filenames giving trouble.
Cheers,
John Nash
Steps to reproduce
Family photos have several hundred jpeg files of which the following
are present in directory Fons
19460904PeterFrohnwedding01.jpg
19460904PeterFrohnwedding02.jpg
19460904PeterFrohnwedding03.jpg
19460904PeterFrohnwedding04.jpg
19460926AlphonseFrohnmarriesReneev.Seters01.jpg
19460926AlphonseFrohnmarriesReneev.Seters02.jpg
19460926AlphonseFrohnmarriesReneev.Seters03.jpg
19460926AlphonseFrohnmarriesReneev.Seters.jpg
Open Thunar. NONE of these show up in either icon or list view except
AFTER files starting 2021*
(depends on what other files are present I believe)
Searching for 194609* shows all of them.
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