XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.comp.os.windows-11, on Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:03:59 +0700, JJ   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2/22/2026 1:51 PM, micky wrote:   
   >> FYI   
   >>   
   >> Did you know: That no file manager with a GuI will display files in a   
   >> directory in the order they are written onto the media?  And that no   
   >> option in CMD will do this either?   
   >   
   >CMD's `DIR` command by default, does not sort. It'll list   
   >files/subdirectories in the order they're written in the storage. Note that,   
      
   Really! I will have to check again.  I may have been misled because the   
   sort subparamenters don't list unsorted.  While TCC/LE lists unsorted as   
   an option.   
      
   >NTFS stores file/subdirectory entries sorted by name.   
      
   So that would make using NTFS a bad idea for me when I need them to be   
   played in date order, oldest first, right?   
      
   I was using-FAT 32.   
      
   > FAT-32/16/12, ISO,   
   >UDF, and exFAT do not. I don't know about ReFS. AFAIK, file systems which   
   >don't have any index, are not physically sorted.   
      
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