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Originally Posted by bryant
Then my question is?
What decides the order on which they are saved to the Flashdrive, can I somehow make it so that the Flash drive will always copy them in order as they are listed alphabetically.
The last couple of Flashdrive imports I did came out the way I would expect, alphabetically, why would that be and not before?
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If you copy a group of files from the hard drive to another location the order they are copied is the order listed in the hard drive FAT (File Allocation Table).
The FAT is hidden on the drive and cannot be seen or changed by the user. This table stores the file information including the location of the first sector of the file and also knows where the next available empty sector is. The files are listed in the FAT in the order they are added to the drive.
When you look at the drive with Explorer it reads the FAT and lists the files. However Explorer lists them the way you want to see them. You can sort the list in ascending or descending order by any field (column) shown but the default is alphbetical ascending.
In order to transfer to another device in alphabetic order you would have to copy one at a time in that order to make sure they are listed in the FAT in that order. Then once you have done that they will be copied to any other location from the second one in that same order.