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If you export a list of items from AMC, it does not order them in the same way as Explorer does.
So if for instance you export movie names and dates from a file, you can't apply them to files as they are out of order. Like Fear II will come before Fear I in Explorer. Very bizarre, but true.
I'm on day 2 of renaming all the files of 1 of 9 disks I have, and am only up to 678 of 2082
Thanks to Python the actual renaming is automated, but all file names and dates must match first. It'll be month before I complete. I hope this can be sorted out at some point.

I'm not sure to understand what you mean and what you are trying to achieve.
In Windows since a few years numbers are detected in strings to be sorted separately, i.e. 2 comes before 10. In basic text sort, 10 would come first because 1 < 2.
There is an option in Tools -> Preferences -> General, "Use natural comparison", when enabled it works like Windows Explorer, but I don't know if it also applies to exporting lists or only to the main window display.
For the example of Fear II vs Fear I in Windows explorer, I don't see such problem, maybe it depends on what is after the roman number (which are just letters for the computer).

I've had dozens of those file inconsistencies the last few hours. I shall try where you said in preferences, and see if it helps. I still have many thousands to do so there's no shortage of testing haha

No there are some proper anomalies. I don't understand either why they come up wrong. But the errors are there and I have to correct them all which is taking multiple hours. I'm going to try a few different ways of organising them and se which is the most accurate.