IIRC, the NTFS filesystem has its own collation tables on disk that are fixed when the volume is formatted, so its indexes are forever consistent but don’t nece

IIRC, the NTFS filesystem has its own collation tables on disk that are fixed when the volume is formatted, so its indexes are forever consistent but don’t necessarily match the ongoing changes to collations. Thus the shell has to re-sort everything before showing it, even though you’d think the filenames were already sorted by NTFS.