New subject: [opensuse] copying files to USB flashdisk in alphabetical order

10 Sep 2013

      On Monday, September 09, 2013 04:43:28 PM Dan Stromberg wrote:
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On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM, John Andersen  wrote:
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On 09/07/2013 10:13 AM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
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Hello:
My old mp3 player plays the files in the order as they were copied
to the disk.
Until now I used to copy the files in the correct order by this command:
find . -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 cp -a --parents
--target-directory=/media/disk
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This used to copy directories and their files recursively in
alphabetocal order.
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But in openSUSE 12.2 it does not work. The files are copied to my sdcard
in random order.
Why is this and how could I fix it?
Thanks,
Istvan
Maybe you should erase/reformat the card first?
*Often it'll work like this:
1) Erase the card
2) Copy files a, b and c to the card, in alphabetical order
3) Erase b
4) Copy d, e and f to the card, in alphabetical order
5) The card now has directory order a, d, c, e, f
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Confirms my suspicion that the card is really reporting arrival order.

I too had a fairly brainded mp3 player that acted this way.
Nuke and reload seemed to work.

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Re: [opensuse] copying files to USB flashdisk in alphabetical order

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