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    From jaugustine@verizon.net@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 27 12:35:40 2024
    Hi,

    Thanks to everyone for your responses to my other post regarding a Cloner


    SOLUTION:

    I have been using WinZip 7.0 (Windows XP and earlier) for years.
    Normally, it did not matter the order of files and folders that I Unzipped.

    I did NOT know that the Unzipped folders and files are in the original order.

    I have several older PCs with WinXP (and earlier) with WinZip 7.0.

    I decided to try it on this USB (FAT32) flash drive with music Albums in the order (NOT alphabetical) I like to hear on my stereo system.

    BY GOLLY! when I UnZipped the zip file onto an empty FAT32 flash drive, the Albums and Songs were in the original order!

    BTW:

    I am going to UNINSTAL "Macrium Reflect" on my Win7 laptop.

    Note: For cloning a hard drive partition, I use "Acronis True Image" I bought in the past. That does a fine job.

    John

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  • From Frank Slootweg@21:1/5 to jaugustine@verizon.net on Fri Sep 27 17:55:41 2024
    jaugustine@verizon.net wrote:
    Hi,

    Thanks to everyone for your responses to my other post regarding a Cloner


    SOLUTION:

    I have been using WinZip 7.0 (Windows XP and earlier) for years. Normally, it did not matter the order of files and folders that I Unzipped.

    I did NOT know that the Unzipped folders and files are in the original order.

    I have several older PCs with WinXP (and earlier) with WinZip 7.0.

    I decided to try it on this USB (FAT32) flash drive with music Albums in the order (NOT alphabetical) I like to hear on my stereo system.

    BY GOLLY! when I UnZipped the zip file onto an empty FAT32 flash drive, the Albums and Songs were in the original order!
    [...]

    Glad you found a solution.

    Remains the/my/'our' question:

    What software did you use to create the files on the original USB memory-stick?

    I.e. what software puts those files in non-alphabetical order without prepending the names with track numbers, i.e. - as I wrote in my first
    response in your first thread - like
    01 <songname>.<ext>
    02 <songname>.<ext>
    etc.?

    As I mentioned, most music programs ('rippers', etc.) generate
    filenames like that, to *prevent* the very problem you were having (and essentially still have).

    If you plug the USB memory-stick into your "stereo system" (AFAIK) you
    didn't say how the USB memory-stick is used), you're lucky that that
    stereo system is apparently 'dumb' enough not to sort the files in
    alphabetical order.

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