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Ilkuul
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4 years ago
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Newly uploaded files not sorted correctly

I have just uploaded 11 new files to a Dropbox folder, and they seem to be stuck at the top of the list: they are not sorting alphabetically with the rest of the files. I have tried changing the so...
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    Rich
    4 years ago
    Ilkuul wrote:

    I have just uploaded 11 new files to a Dropbox folder, and they seem to be stuck at the top of the list: they are not sorting alphabetically with the rest of the files.

    Best guess, the files have a whitespace character at the beginning of each filename. In the screenshot below, the Test.txt file has a non-breaking space at the beginning of the name, so it sorts to the top of the list.

     

     

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Rich
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4 years ago
Ilkuul wrote:

I have just uploaded 11 new files to a Dropbox folder, and they seem to be stuck at the top of the list: they are not sorting alphabetically with the rest of the files.

Best guess, the files have a whitespace character at the beginning of each filename. In the screenshot below, the Test.txt file has a non-breaking space at the beginning of the name, so it sorts to the top of the list.

 

 

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Ilkuul
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

That was it! The last thing I would have guessed, but you spotted it. I used a bulk renamer to strip prefixes off those filenames, and it left the following space behind. Many thanks!

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