#22 change nnumbered files

[kikibelux]

Hi, First, thanks for your software. It 's usefull.

I need a help about à thing:
if I want to rename numbered files, files appear in this order : 1 11 12 2 21 22 3 31....
I don't find any button to change in this order 1 2 3 ... 11 12 13...21 22

Could you help me , thanks a lot

[Zurd]

File "11" will always come before file "2"

You need to add a leading zero so that "2" will become "02"

Then you files will look like: 01 02 03 04... 09 10 11 12... 19 20 21

[kikibelux]

Thanks a lot for this tips, I know it !
But that don't work if I add this leading zero with GPR !
If I do this manually, one by one, with thunar or other. It Works !

I join three screenchotes

with one where you see the same folder viewed by rename plugin of thunar ans gprrename
you could see that files aren't well ordered

[Zurd]

Ah yes, I understand now. If I remember, years ago, I opened a bug about the ordering of files/folder, can't remember for what software though.

I think the problem in this case is GTK2-Perl file listing, so you'll have to file a bug with them. I'm not going to bother because I hate this programming language now and one day I will redo gprename in python. Note that GTK2-Perl is probably considered deprecated now in favor of GTK3-Perl so there is probably nothing we can do anyway.

Thunar is ordering files properly and it is written in GTK3-Perl so I would guess they might have fix this bug when going from 2 to 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunar

For reference, see image attached, Caja is ordering the file properly but not MATE Terminal. The file ordering in Linux is a mess, everyone has a different way, there is no standard.