sort my vids relative or absolute?

[reven]

ok in my videos currently it sorts the files as absolute filenames eg
D:\my videos\films\a.mpg
D:\my videos\films\b.mpg

now this usually isnt a problem, but with the .link files any directories specified in that file, its files will be added to the list, and with using absolute names the sorting isnt always alphabetical
eg
D:\my videos\films1\b.mpg
D:\my videos\films2\a.mpg

b is sorted before a.

now do you want it to sort via
(a) relative
ie "a.mpg" and "b.mpg"
or do you want it so you can tell which videos are in which dirs, and sort by
(b) absolute
ie "D:\my videos\films1\b.mpg" "d:\my videos\films2\a.mpg"

[tblackwe]

is there no way to do an option between the to in the setup?

[reven]

if the vote is close ill do a checkbox in the config, if its not, then i wont bother.

[mrfreelines]

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[Guest]

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[xtoph]

Quote[/b] (reven @ Feb. 19 2005,22:41)]if the vote is close ill do a checkbox in the config, if its not, then i wont bother.

I would stronlgy argue in favour of making this a config option. It heavily depends on how you organize things on your harddisc.

As long as you have multiple "root" directories for storage load-balancing (= technical reason), like in reven's example at the beginning of this thread, it would probably make sense to use relative filenames for sorting. However, as soon as you think about putting e.g. all sci-fi stuff in one directory and action things in another (= non-technical reason), all of a sudden the absolute path can have its merits.