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Copying method has no effect on the resulting sort. The device it gets plugged into needs to represent it alphabetically


Well THIS device (car sound system) does NOT. I imagine that the car mfg can save $0.01 per car by not providing a sort function so they didn't.
It just displays the files ...

Trying to alpha copy on Windows is very problematic. The hack of cutting and pasting does not always work, especially if you are copying a folder containing many subfolders each of which contains many files. (Only a 1 level hierarchy but still..). Windows seems to try to parallelize the copy and as ...

Does FFS copy files in alphabetical order?
When I am creating a USB stick (Fat32 file system) for use in the car I want the directories and the files inside the directories to be copied in alphabetical order.
Is there a way to ask FFS to do that?

Hi,
Running Linux Mint 19 (Tara). Downloaded FFS vers 10.3 and unpacked the tarball into directory /usr/local/src/FreeFileSync

There is no Makefile that I can see, so I can't just do a make install.
When I just run the executable from the directory created by unpacking the tarball it works fine ...