How to disable numerical sorting in Opus 12?

Help & Support
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Using the Group Policy Editor, it was possible to 'disable' numerical sorting of file names. Windows now sorts all file names literally.

Instead of sorting like this: 22, 45, 109, 204
It now sorts like this: 109, 204, 22, 45

Windows 10 File Explorer and all dialog screens are now using literal sorting. Some of us crusty old-timers prefer this method.

However, Opus 12 still sorts my files using numerical sorting. I've searched the Opus preferences and cannot find a way to disable numerical sorting.

If it's possible, can you tell me how to do it?

Thanks for your help and time.

Jerry

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In the Folder Format or Folder Options, Numeric order filename sorting is the setting you want to turn off.

Folder > Folder Options, if using the default toolbars:

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Leo,

Thanks for your help.

I was trying to find this setting under 'Settings/Preferences' and that setting wasn't there. I had to go to 'Folder/Folder Options' on the toolbar.

Sorry for taking up your valuable time.

Jerry

4

Apologies for reviving an old thread. This is to further help people with getting DOpus to match the sort order that Windows 10's File Explorer and Open/Save As dialogs show.

In addition to turning off "Numeric order filename sorting", I also needed to turn on "Word sort (special handling for hyphens, etc)".

In my case, here's what was happening:

In DOpus, I was getting this order:
ProjectName-SomeInfo
ProjectName - SomeInfo

In File Explorer and file dialogs (Open and Save As), I was getting this order:
ProjectName - SomeInfo
ProjectName-SomeInfo

Without reading the filename, I would click the third file in the dialogs because I had just worked on that file via DOpus and knew it was in the third position, only to discover I'd opened the wrong one.