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System Monitor

Post subject: Error in help

Posted: July 8th, 2010, 10:10 am

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On the Loop (files and folders) page, http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/LoopFile.htm, under the remarks section it says "Files in an NTFS file system are probably always retrieved in alphabetical order".

That doesn't make sense... I just thought someone should fix it in the next release

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SKAN

Post subject: Re: Error in help

Posted: July 8th, 2010, 10:25 am

Joined: December 26th, 2005, 4:40 pm
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System Monitor wrote:

That doesn't make sense...

So, what does?.. I mean: What alteration do you suggest?

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jaco0646

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Posted: July 8th, 2010, 5:35 pm

Joined: October 7th, 2006, 4:50 pm
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Location: MN, USA

MSDN uses the word usually in place of the bolded phrase. I'm sure Chris just added a bit more certainty to the documentation, since usually is even more vague than probably always.

FindNextFile Function

MSDN wrote:

The order in which this function returns the file names is dependent on the file system type. With the NTFS file system and CDFS file systems, the names are usually returned in alphabetical order. With FAT file systems, the names are usually returned in the order the files were written to the disk, which may or may not be in alphabetical order. However, as stated previously, these behaviors are not guaranteed.

P.S. Coincidence that this post came just 90 minutes after it was mentioned here? :wink:

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System Monitor

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Posted: July 9th, 2010, 9:02 pm

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I think usually would be make more sense. Probably means it is not necessarily all the time and always means all of the time. It can't be probably always. It is an oxymoron.
I would recommend that it be changed to usually. And it was a complete coincidence

That is just my opinion.

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Lexikos

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Posted: July 10th, 2010, 8:58 am

Joined: October 17th, 2006, 4:15 pm
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System Monitor wrote:

Probably means it is not necessarily all the time

If I say "apples probably aren't oranges", does that imply apples are oranges some of the time?

When you pull those two words out of context, of course they don't make sense. Read outwards from "probably"...

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Files in an NTFS file system are probably always retrieved in alphabetical order.

Quote:

In all likelihood, files in an NTFS file system are always retrieved in alphabetical order.

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System Monitor

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Posted: July 10th, 2010, 9:41 am

Joined: March 9th, 2007, 2:47 am
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I understand what you are saying but I still think "probably always" is very confusing.
If I thought an apple might be an orange I would be careful!
You don't have to make any changes to the documentation obviously

, I just think you should. It really doesn't matter to me. Just trying to help out the community.

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