Here's my procedure:
1. In new message, click on "Attachment" paperclip icon in message's tool bar.
2. "Attach File" window opens. Files are in list view, sorted by Name (i.e. in
alphabetical order).
3. I then select a group of files by dragging down the list ("drag select"?),
and click "Choose".
4. File names appear at bottom of message window, but no longer in alphabetical
order.
If I do the above, but select files one at a time, I can force the alphabetical
order to be respected, but this is time consuming and can be confusing.
If I instead drag a group of files from a Finder window, selected as I did in
#3 above, they are again not in alphabetical order, but in a different
reordering.
Changing the method of selecting a contiguous group of files, such as by using
shift-click, does not prevent the files from being re-ordering out of
alphabetical order.
For example, a group of image files that was selected in alphabetical order
ends up in this order when selected from a Finder window:
IMG_7464.JPG
IMG_7403.JPG
IMG_7397.JPG
IMG_7407.JPG
IMG_7385.JPG
IMG_7392.JPG
When selected from an Attach File window, again starting in alphabetical order,
I get a different, again non-alphabetical, order:
IMG_7407.JPG
IMG_7385.JPG
IMG_7397.JPG
IMG_7392.JPG
IMG_7464.JPG
IMG_7403.JPG
Each method appears to produce the same "random" order if tried multiple times.
This appears to be a bug in how PowerMail selects files.
- Winston Weinmann
PowerMail Engineering wrote:
>Winston Weinmann wrote:
>
>>When I select a group of files as attachments to an email, PowerMail
>>reorders them, seemingly in a random order.
>
>Are you adding the attachments using the the "add attachments" toolbar
>button or menu, or by drag and drop from the Finder? Are you adding them
>one at a time, or with a multiple selection?
>
>If you add them one at a time, the order should be preserved. If you add
>a selection from the Finder, the order should be preserved as well, but
>this may depend how you selected the files in the finder (drag-select,
>command click, shift click, icon view or list view etc). If you add the
>selection from the "add attachments" dialog, I think PowerMail receives
>the file in alphabetical order, and there is nothing we can do about it.
>
>
>Jérôme - CTM Engineering
>
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