Sorting bug in 11.21

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AlexOsadzinski

11.21 seems to have a bug in default sorting: the folders don't sort alphabetically nor do the files within the folders. The attached screenshot shows the problem: folder "R\P\Pink Floyd" sorts before "R\0" and the filenames are out of order too.
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Left-clicking on the "Relative Path" bar fixes the sorting but there seems no way to make that the default. The correct sorting cannot be saved in to a session file either. My laptop was still on version 11.18, and I tried a similar comparison, which sorted correctly. I auto-updated the laptop to 11.21 and the sorting problem happened when I ran the same comparison. I thought it might be related to me running three parallel threads during the comparison, but it happens identically with one thread. I also wondered if the problem was caused by doing a comparison with a network share; the problem exists between folders on the same computer.

I then installed 11.18 on my main machine (the one that provided the attached screenshot) and the same comparison sorted correctly. I don't have backup up installers of the 11.19 and 11.20 installs, so don't know where between 11.18 and 11.21 the error was introduced.
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Zenju

Thanks for the report! Turns out the file listing was never sorted for folders existing on only one side! It accidentally looked sorted, but never was e.g. "a1, A2, B1, b2". Fixed: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8ek81ezy7ixrdg4/FreeFileSync_11.22_%255BBeta%255D_Windows_Setup%25282%2529.exe
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AlexOsadzinski

Yes indeed: fixed in 11.22 beta. Thanks!