copy a folder to usb drive, doesn't copy files in correct order

[ave]

if you right click on a folder (lets say full of mp3's) > copy and the paste it onto your mp3/flash drive, it doesn't always copy the files in the sort order- so it may copy "track 04" first.

on the other hand, if you open up the folder and select all the files first, then copy and paste, it then copies in the correct order

so why should that be a problem you ask?

Two of my mp3 players inc a Sony don't use Id3 tags to sort files, they use folders instead

and for some reason, they both play the files in the order that you copy them. So if I copy 3 mp3's in the following order
02 a certain song
03 a certain song
01 a certain song

that's the order they will play in.

now when you listening to audio books, for obvious reasons, the files need to play in the correct order.

so if Im copying 5 folders each containing mp3's, I have to go into each folder> select all > copy > go onto the mp3 player > create folder > enter folder > paste > wait till it has finished copying and repeat. It would be so much easier if we could just copy the root folder and paste that, secure in the knowledge that it will copy every file in the correct order

[Timothy Arceri (t-fridey)]

Thanks for the bug report. You should also report this upstream as a nautilus issue here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug has already been reported upstream in the past. I've added the URL to the tracker.