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My content files have suddenly begun appearing in reverse alphabetical order. Does anyone know how to change this?

Thanks.

Flare picks up the sort order from Windows Explorer. So if you or another user sorted that folder in reverse, Flare will just run with that.

Flare doesn't ALWAYS pick up the content's folder order from Windows.

Sometimes it uses creation order or some other order that I can't quite put my finger on.

(I was bored one day and spent an hour experimenting. Couldn't find the pattern. I suspect a number of different things affect content order, and that there's some kind of hierarchy to those effects.)

But Kevin's statement is usually true. If you navigate to your content folder in Windows, view it as a detailed list, and then click on the column header to sort the contents and then relaunch Flare... the items in that directory will probably be resorted.

-d

Thanks. I already checked that. The folders all appear in the opposite order than their arragement in WE. In WE, the folders are listed from A to Z with the single files following. In Flare, the folders are listed from Z to A with the single files following. Weird, huh?

Ive seen that happen also if the project is on a network drive or location, if its local does it still occur

Aha...! I made a copy of the project on my desktop and, no, it does not occur with a local copy. Interesting. Think I'll submit a bug.

Thanks!

Update - I submitted the bug and got the following information from Support:

Generally its a timing issue on Flares part. Sometimes if you create a new topic in that directory, it snaps them in order and then you can delete that topic. Its been logged and we are looking into it.