[Bug] Sorting by size - wrong order

[Gazer]

Hello,
My files/folders sizes displayed in "All_Dims" form (unit of measure is not fixed b,kb,Mb,Gb).
The bug is that sorting by size ignores units, and looks only at number of units. E.g. four files with sizes 10b, 3Kb, 5Mb, 7Gb would be sorted like this:
3Kb
5Mb
7Gb
10b.

Is it known bug? I have used search in forum, but didn't find it.

[SanskritFritz]

I cannot confirm this, my TC 6.52 sorts correctly:

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..	<DIR>	2005.05.17 11:03	----
2005.04.16 Dia szülinap	231,5 M	2005.04.17 17:25	----
2005.04.27 Anyák napja ..	88,3 M	2005.04.27 19:35	----
2005.04.17 Mamáéknál	60,1 M	2005.04.27 19:31	----
2005.05.14 Gyerekfesztivál	43,3 M	2005.05.14 13:55	----
2005.04.29 Anyák napja ..	38,1 M	2005.05.01 22:05	----
2005.05.16 Bakonykuti	28,1 M	2005.05.16 13:03	----
2005.05.08 Dédi szülinapja	9,9 M	2005.05.10 17:31	----
2005.04.23 Dani forog a k..	8,8 M	2005.04.23 20:16	----
2005.04.05 Dani szülinap	7,4 M	2005.04.08 23:26	----
2005.05.15 Gyüliben	4,3 M	2005.05.16 13:02	----
2005.04.21 Dani, Tekla, Á..	3,6 M	2005.04.21 21:04	----
2005.03.29 Esti mese	2,6 M	2005.04.08 23:25	----
2005.03.22 Tekla és Dani ..	1,5 M	2005.04.08 23:24	----
2005.04.14 Frank és Ákos	1,3 M	2005.04.14 19:23	----
2004.07.31 Jim wedding	870,4 k	2005.05.17 11:03	----
2005.05.12 Ákos alszik	828,8 k	2005.05.14 13:54	----
2005.04.09 Gyerekfesztiv..	803,8 k	2005.04.10 23:25	----
2005.05.10 Dia és Jakab	509,3 k	2005.05.14 13:54	----

[Hacker]

I don't confirm, either, neither with dynamic x setting nor with dynamic x.x setting. XP SP2.

Roman

[Gazer]

Image: http://gazer.at.tut.by/bug.jpg
No photoshop.
Total version - 6.52. Sizes - [=dirsizecalc.Size (on demand).All_Dims].
Thoughts?
P.S. How could I add images in my posts??

[Flint]

I don't confirm this too, all files/folders are sorted correctly...

Edited: sorry, I posted it before I read that a new message from Gazer appeared.
In this case such behaviour is possible, because TC don't know that "3k", "7M" and so on are file sizes, and it sorts them as usual strings. I'm not sure at present if this can be easily fixed...

[djk]

Well, you could write at once that it's a problem of sorting in plugin, not in TC itself.
Now it really works as you've described.

[Vansumsen]

Hi Gazer,
Please verify :
Configuration >>> Options >>> Display >>> Sorting directories >>> Like files (also by time)
Friendly
Paul

[Lefteous]

2Gazer
To end up the mystery I would like to quote from the DirsizeCalc readme file:

WARNING:
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The sort order doesn't work regardless of the Total Commander setting SortUpper.

After all it's a known limitation. The reason is indeed that these values are actually strings. When DirSizeCalc 1.13 has been released there has been no other to display user-defined units.
Now Total Commander 6.52 has been released. It brings several new enhancements to the plugin interface including a clean solution for this problem. Please be patient! DirSizeCalc 1.20 will make use of the enhancements in TC 6.52.

[Gazer]

djk is right. The bug is in DirSizeCalc plugin, not in TC.
Conclusion: back to common Tabstops.

Tnanks to Lefteous also.

[Lefteous]

2Gazer

djk is right.

No he is not. DirsizeCalc doesn't sort anything.

The bug is in DirSizeCalc plugin, not in TC.

It seems you didn't get the point. It's not a bug.

Conclusion: back to common Tabstops.

It seems you are not patient at all.. Bad luck!

[djk]

I meant only that it was a problem of sorting while using plugins and not default TC columns. It was not clear after the first post of Gazer