> Unless you choose to sort items by date.
But isn't that an option you have to select once the dialog is open?
How they are initially displayed appears to be alphabetically by name.
Somehow, I don't think that it's as random as Joe says as it appeared
to the OP that they opened in the same order each time.
Just as I don't think that adding files to folders rearranges their
order, just their appearance in the finder itself. Maybe it has more
to do with the order they were created on the drive? Just guessing
though.
In all Unix directories, files are added at the first open slot. For
new directories, this means at the end. If the directory has been
around and some files have been deleted, new files may be added into
the open slots.
So, when a program traverses a directory (e.g., with readdir), you get
the files in the order that they are in the directory.
Just about every utility in Unix sorts the names. Ditto, of course,
for the Finder and other GUI-level views.
So, the order is random, sort of. But you only notice this if you are
working at the program level. As a user, you ar pretty much unaware
of the underlying order.
Craig
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