Hey, James:

QRecall saved my bacon for the first time today! I had just downloaded a new version of some software and trashed the previous version. Unfortunately the new version seems to have some serious problems and garbled its database. With QRecall I was able to quickly and easily restore both yesterday's version of the database and and previous version of the app! Hooray for QRecall!

Anyway, when digging out the previous version of the app, I noticed that QRecall seems to have a bit of a sorting issue. In my application folder I've got a batch of folders forced to the top of the list by prefixing their names with a space:

 AUDIO apps

 BIDDING APPS

 CHAT APPS

 GRAPHIC APPS

 INTERNET APPS

 MEDIA PLAYER APPS

 MIDI Utilies

 MUSIC APPS

 MUSIC Labelling apps

 OCR programs

 TEXT APPS

 video efx

 WEB DESIGN apps

ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint

In QRecall, the sort order gets messed up:

 AUDIO apps

 BIDDING APPS

 OCR programs

 TEXT APPS

 video efx

 WEB DESIGN apps

ABBYY FineReader 5 Sprint

And then way down at the bottom of the app folder:

WakeOnLan

zotware

 CHAT APPS

 GRAPHIC APPS

 INTERNET APPS

 MEDIA PLAYER APPS

 MIDI Utilies

 MUSIC APPS

 MUSIC Labelling apps

 video efx

Is there something going on that I'm missing, or is this a buglet?

Thanks,

If I had to guess, I'd say that some of your folder names begin with <space> and others begin with Option+<space> (non-breaking space).

QRecall uses a Unicode comparision function supplied by Mac OS X that's supposed to sort exactly the same way the Finder does. Clearly some investigation is in order. Which is actually good timing, as I'm in the process of reengineering the way that strings are managed internally.

You guessed right. I pasted the list into Word and could see the non-breakers.

What was I thinking!

Sorry for the blind alley.

Best,

Steve