Bug in TC's Date Sort
Moderators: Hacker, petermad, Stefan2, white
Hm, ok then - a solution would be to have 2 versions of the program - one for Win 9x, the other for Win 2000/XP, but I guess that isn't going to happen. XP Explorer does work fine with date sorts, it's only TC that has the problem (which is what makes the bug such a frustrating one - you see that an inferior file manager to TC has such a basic function as date sorting working 100% correctly, then you see that TC cannot handle this at all). Why would you want to run XP explorer .exe under Win 95 though? If you have Win XP installed, then you run the Explorer .exe that comes with it. If you have Win 95 installed, you run its Explorer .exe. I have XP installed, I run the Explorer that was installed with it & its date sort works correctly.
the point is: Total Commander is compatible with both Win9x and the Win2k-WinXP line. XP Explorer knows to accurately sort files by date/time, with presicion up to a second (maybe even more), but it is not compatible with Win9x! If you run it under Windows 98 it will (presumably) simply crash.
there must be a compromise between backwards compatibility and new features. And Christian does not have the needed man power to maintain two product lines.
there must be a compromise between backwards compatibility and new features. And Christian does not have the needed man power to maintain two product lines.
Hm, fair enough then. I still don't understand why TC cannot use to the second sorting under Win XP, but it's Christian's baby, he can do what he likes with it. However, I need a file manager that is acurate in this way, so I sadly will have to stop using TC & go looking for another one. Pity - TC was by far the best file manager I had ever used. Odd though - as I mentioned previously, I'm sure that versions of TC prior to 5.5 didn't have this problem, & I was using them under XP. Oh well, so it goes.
I've just installed a freeware file manager to try out (2xExplorer). It runs on both Win 9x & Win 2000/XP/NT, & its date sort works perfectly down to the second, so for me, this makes it doubly puzzling why TC has to apparently not have this feature for 'compatibility' reasons. This other program shows it can be done, & there is only one version of it too - a separate Win 9x & a separate Win 2000/XP/NT version is not required.
