Displaying contents of USB key in Windows question

[Dave Neve]

Hello

I have a USB key full of podcasts (audio files) that I use for work.

When I open connect it to my computer and open it in Windows, there are many
ways of displaying the contents such as 'date modified' or 'size' or
'alphabetical order'.

But what I need is simply to know which podcast is in which place so that
when I use my USB key in class, I can find the right podcast without
problem.

I need a 'display in order on the USB key function'

I have asked this same question on the Hewlett Packard site (my USB key is a
HP product), but no one could help me.

I guess it is a Windows display problem.

Any help appreciated.

Dave Neve

 

[Mike Williams]

Hello

I have a USB key full of podcasts (audio files) that I use for work.

When I open connect it to my computer and open it in Windows, there are many
ways of displaying the contents such as 'date modified' or 'size' or
'alphabetical order'.

But what I need is simply to know which podcast is in which place so that
when I use my USB key in class, I can find the right podcast without
problem.

How are the podcasts organised on the key? All in one folder or in a
particular folder hierarchy?

I need a 'display in order on the USB key function'

But what's the order you are after?

I have asked this same question on the Hewlett Packard site (my USB key is a
HP product), but no one could help me.

They may not have understood what you wanted. If it's too much effort to
understand, many will simply ignore the post.

 

[Dave Neve]

Hi

There doesn't seem to be a folder but just podcasts (I normally drag them
across windows to copy)

The order I am after is that the podcasts display in Windows in the same
order as they are on the key.

Then if I want to play a certain podcast, I will know where it is on the
key and can find it easily as my USB key displays the number of the podcast
about to be played.

None of the current options of display in Windows seem to give me this and
the display gets 'jumbled up'.

Any possibilities

 

[Rock]

Hi

There doesn't seem to be a folder but just podcasts (I normally drag them
across windows to copy)

The order I am after is that the podcasts display in Windows in the same
order as they are on the key.

Then if I want to play a certain podcast, I will know where it is on the
key and can find it easily as my USB key displays the number of the podcast
about to be played.

None of the current options of display in Windows seem to give me this and
the display gets 'jumbled up'.

Any possibilities

You're post is still unclear. What do you mean by the order they are on
the key? Do you mean the same as the sequence in which you stored them
there? Files are not stored in any particular order.

 

[Mike Williams]

Hi

There doesn't seem to be a folder but just podcasts (I normally drag them
across windows to copy)

The order I am after is that the podcasts display in Windows in the same
order as they are on the key.

There is no intrinsic order on a disk. There are plenty of *possible*
orders to impose on files.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Hi

There doesn't seem to be a folder but just podcasts (I normally drag them
across windows to copy)

The order I am after is that the podcasts display in Windows in the same
order as they are on the key.

They're not in any particular order on the key. Most likely, the key
uses a FAT32 file system. New file entries are placed in the first
available entry in the directory. The file itself is wherever the file
system found enough space for it.

What do you mean by "the order they are on the key"?? That phrase
means nothing to me.

 

[Marko Jotic]

its actually very clear: in the order they are saved, the same as you
get listing files in CMD, not sorted

You're post is still unclear. What do you mean by the order they are on
the key? Do you mean the same as the sequence in which you stored them
there? Files are not stored in any particular order.

--
Marko Jotic
"Common sense is anything but common".
From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
Handmade knives, antique designs, exotic materials at
http://www.knifeforging.com/

 

[Marko Jotic]

worst case go to the command prompt and list them

in the future rename them with a leading date: 20060301Name

Hi

There doesn't seem to be a folder but just podcasts (I normally drag them
across windows to copy)

The order I am after is that the podcasts display in Windows in the same
order as they are on the key.

Then if I want to play a certain podcast, I will know where it is on the
key and can find it easily as my USB key displays the number of the podcast
about to be played.

None of the current options of display in Windows seem to give me this and
the display gets 'jumbled up'.

Any possibilities

--
Marko Jotic
"Common sense is anything but common".
From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
Handmade knives, antique designs, exotic materials at
http://www.knifeforging.com/

 

[Mike Williams]

its actually very clear: in the order they are saved, the same as you
get listing files in CMD, not sorted

If you are getting that order from DIR then it is a complete fluke. You
can use the DIR command to sort in all sorts of different ways. None of
the folders I run DIR over list the files in save order.

 

[Marko Jotic]

then I guess they are in FAT order?

they sure are NOT sorted unless you ask for it

If you are getting that order from DIR then it is a complete fluke. You
can use the DIR command to sort in all sorts of different ways. None of
the folders I run DIR over list the files in save order.

--
Marko Jotic
"Common sense is anything but common".
From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
Handmade knives, antique designs, exotic materials at
http://www.knifeforging.com/

 

[Rock]

its actually very clear: in the order they are saved, the same as you
get listing files in CMD, not sorted

He didn't say that. If it's clear to you fine.