redlancer
08-22-04, 09:11 PM
When viewing files on my HD, I usually use the detail view so that I can organize files by size, date modified, etc.
The problem is that with drives other than the HD (i.e. CD-RW and DVD-RW) Windows decides that it knows better than I do. If I sort my files by size on an optical drive in my system, they are put into really fancy categories like "Tiny", "Huge", and "Gigantic", which despite being woefully undescriptive doesn't do me much good. Even within each category they still aren't arranged by size, but alphebetically. And if I arrange by name, Windows decides that I need a heading for each letter. Organizing by date is even better, with categories ranging from "Earlier this year" to "A long time ago"...
...and still not organized by date within each 'timeframe category'...
This has always annoyed me, but only seems to happen on writeable optical drives. Is there anyway to have windows sort files on these drives the same as with the HD, which actually sorts as it should, without helping me out with all this extra 'information'...
Thanx,
Steve Johnson
The problem is that with drives other than the HD (i.e. CD-RW and DVD-RW) Windows decides that it knows better than I do. If I sort my files by size on an optical drive in my system, they are put into really fancy categories like "Tiny", "Huge", and "Gigantic", which despite being woefully undescriptive doesn't do me much good. Even within each category they still aren't arranged by size, but alphebetically. And if I arrange by name, Windows decides that I need a heading for each letter. Organizing by date is even better, with categories ranging from "Earlier this year" to "A long time ago"...
...and still not organized by date within each 'timeframe category'...
This has always annoyed me, but only seems to happen on writeable optical drives. Is there anyway to have windows sort files on these drives the same as with the HD, which actually sorts as it should, without helping me out with all this extra 'information'...
Thanx,
Steve Johnson