Drive size units, in Preferences / Folders / Virtual Folders / This PC.
It only affects This PC. Making file size columns only use units like GB for everything wouldn't make sense in most cases as almost every file you encounter would say its size was zero.
It's much better than it was but there's still a uniformity issue. Some have no decimals, some have 1 decimal and some have 2. I would think 1 decimal to the right is more than enough. And even if it's 0 I'd like to see it.
Then just a warning for others. I think a slow drive, like a USB thumb drive, that reports slower won't sort correctly initially just depending if it's pre-sorted or you sorted it faster than DO got the size. Just beware.
Spoke to soon. Something else is going on with sort.
It was sorted right then after a second or two re-sorted wrong.
It is a large 4tb external USB drive but why it's out-of-order I don't know. I have an identical drive on my desktop it seems to sort OK. It's a Seagate One-Touch HDD. All this time I thought it was an SSD. It's completely silent has no ventilation. I just held it up to my ear and there's definately a motor.
That makes sense. What determines the auto size?
I also suggest that you add the Gb and Tb sizes to column choices like you have the others. May want to get out ahead and add a Pb too.
I can't see anything out of order in that screenshot.
39.9 < 332 < 3770
The order in the two screenshots seems the same to me?
Yes but my theory behind why it's wrong has changed.
The drive with 3770 gb should be at the bottom.
It looks like it is at the bottom of the group it's in.
The 105GB one looks like it's in a separate group.
Hard to tell of course because of how much you've cropped the screenshot.
There are no Group By clauses in effect. Furthermore C, D and E (which is the 102gb) are all on the same NVRAM.
I was thinking it was a USB HDD device but that was an E: vs F: thing. Sorry.
Which "Free Space" column is that?
If it's one of the custom Evaluator ones discussed above, what's the column definition you're using now?
It's the one you added into DO in the preferences.
I didn't add anything related to Preferences.
Earlier you were talking about this custom Evaluator column:
Is that the one you are using now (maybe with the Title changed)? If so, it may explain why the sort order is wrong; its code may needs adjusting to handle sorting correctly. But I want to make sure it's what you're actually using first, as we might be looking at the wrong thing.
These are the same columns I'm using on both my desktop and laptop.
Initially when I display This PC the values are sorted correctly then a second later it resorts it.
Now there are 2 in the wrong place both on NVRAM. Initially it was only one wrong then I moved to a different folder and returned.
Are you using the Evaluator column shown earlier in the thread, or something else?
I'm using what are the standard columns that are affected by the preference setting as far as I know because they are showing in GB. The Eavaluator columns both have "gb" in the column name.
I've tried a few things but can't reproduce what you're seeing so far.
If you sort by another column, then sort by Free Space again, do you get the correct order then, or is it still wrong?
Is the order wrong as soon as you open the folder, or only after something changes (e.g. a disk or media is added or removed/ejected from the list)?
It's right until it re-sorts. Which sometimes takes several seconds and other times is almost immediate.
Even when I navigate to This PC there's no obvious sort imposed by settings other than drive letters with Plex media server at the top without a letter so it's always requires a manual sort.
Drive C is back where it belongs.
DO does the same thing on the Used Space column.
I also cleared the This PC folder format and exited DO to see if it made a diference and then reset it to the default and exited yet again with no difference in behavior.
I hate to add confusion but having various settings for This PC in different places makes it hard to know what's going on. Also there's nothing shown on This PC lister to even tell you what format it's using. I'm assuming it's using This PC. There's multiple sorting criteria listed but it doesn't make a lot of sense because most of it is file related not drive related. When would you see files under This PC?
I did a search in preferences on This PC to see what all came up. All these places have settings related to This PC and some seem contradictory in nature and various sort settings.
I wis I could give you more insight but I got nothing obvious.
Do you mean when you click the column header to change which column it is sorting by?
Or do you mean you're already sorting by a column, and the data in that column changes and causes the items to need to be sorted again?
Details on exactly what you do to see the problem would be useful here.
This PC has its own format in Preferences / Folders / Folder Formats, but please keep that to another thread as this one is already hard enough to follow.
When I first go into This PC it's displayed in letter order + plex. Then when I click to sort by either space column it sorts correctly for a min of a second then it resorts, on it's own.
I only bring up the settings because all these different places seem to have sort options. Since I don't know what might be causing the re-sort I thought I'd mention it.
So this just in...
It's only certain columns that cause it to sort wrong. Now just let me preface this with I didn't test ever single available column just the few that I've added.
Seems that as long as it's sorted by Name, Relative Size or Size (auto) it sorts correctly. If it's sorted by Used Space, Free Space or Percent Full then it will mis-sort. The initial lag when sorting by one of the mis-behaving columns can sometimes take 20-30 seconds and sometimes it's almost immediate. Usually once the sorting goes wrong then sorting by other mis-behaving columns will be quicker. This makes no sense to me.
There's also some column resizing going on. I opened a second lister below the first and screen shot how it ends up vs how it starts. I tried to figure out what was resizing but I can't seem to focus on it while it happens. It seems to just happen when sorting on one of the mis-behaving columns. But it only happens when it re-sorts. Back to the odd time it takes to do the re-sort. It seemed like the first column sort took some time re-sort because it was the first but I can be messing around re-sorting and it can take just as long the 20th time as the 1st. It can be so long sometimes I think it's not going to happen.
So as each mis-behaving column is re-sorted columns resize to the top lister layout. Once I've sorted on all 3 misbehaving columns the resizing stops. Crazy stuff.
