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O.P. Log viewer suggestion + bug(?)
First the suggestion: I just opened the log viewer and noticed that I now have logs from 2006 to 2008 saved in there, one folder per month.
Why aren't those log folders sorted chronologically ? In my opinion that would be the better (in terms of user friendliness) choice than sorting them alphabetically in the tree view.

To visualize:

Current (Alphabetical order)              Better (Chronological order)
[Image: logview-abcsort2.png]     [Image: logview-chronsort2.png]



And now the other thing I noticed was that on a PC running a 'german' Windows XP with the English version of WLM installed and the Interface Language set to English in the Messenger Plus! Preferences, the chat logs are still saved in folders named after the german months ('Januar', 'Februar', 'März',... instead of 'January', 'February', 'March'...). Not sure if this can be classified as bug, I consider it a minor inconsistency, just something I noticed.

This post was edited on 09-27-2008 at 11:19 PM by andrey.
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RE: Log viewer suggestion + bug(?)
I've thought about the sorting of the chat log folders as well, and my suggestion would be to use a different naming system, so that when you sort them by name they would be sorted properly, my suggestion is <year>-<month> - <month name>, so it could look like "2007-01 January". Why not an option to customize the way the folders are named?
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RE: Log viewer suggestion + bug(?)
Feature request: Log file naming
Chat Logging by Month, Language is mixed up
Log Viewer - sorting and inconsistencies
Log Viewer month's order (beta testers only)
Log Viewer (beta testers only)

it's been discussed once or twice before :P

i'd definitely love it to be done like that, but apparently it's a limitation for a variety of reasons (best pointed out by cookie in at least one of the above threads)

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Blah, I only noticed those threads when I had already posted this one :p
I guess I'll search before posting next time, not afterwards. :rolleyes:
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RE: Log viewer suggestion + bug(?)
I complained about that a while ago aswell. And frankly, it being a technical limitation is not an excuse. It's a serious design flaw. =p
09-28-2008 12:28 PM
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Hmm, based on what I've read in previous threads, I'm surprised this issue is that hard to correct . . . .

There REALLY should be a way to address this problem.

I was wondering by any chance this issue could be database related?
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Hmm, based on what I've read in previous threads, I'm surprised this issue is that hard to correct . . . .

There REALLY should be a way to address this problem.

I was wondering by any chance this issue could be database related?

no, as there's no database involved......the problem arises with the way that windows orders folders.....the only way around it is to change the way your log folders get named (possible by registry editing iirc) to yyyy-mm and then they can be ordered chronologically by sorting by name
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RE: Log viewer suggestion + bug(?)
I'll try to do something for the next version.
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no, as there's no database involved......the problem arises with the way that windows orders folders.....the only way around it is to change the way your log folders get named (possible by registry editing iirc) to yyyy-mm and then they can be ordered chronologically by sorting by name

or it could just be coded to sort them chronologically....
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RE: Log viewer suggestion + bug(?)
done :). That will be part of Plus! 4.81 which will be released in March.
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