Finder filename sort (out of order)

Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
The finder sorts long lists of file names in an incorrect order. A long list being 3000+ files.

I am trying to an ascending sort on the filenames of files located on a Windows share.



example:



65955YZO.tif

6595AZO.tif

6596BF9.tif



sorts as:



65955YZO.tif

6596BF9.tif

6595AZO.tif



This would be incorrect assuming the finder is trying to sort the text strings based on the ascii values of each charater. Sorts the same way in all view modes. Performing "ls -l" in a terminal window lists the files correctly.



I understand that there are way too many files in a single directory but I inherited this problem so no comments on that please. We are moving to a content management system soon but for now I have to deal with this.
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