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Windows sort folders differently now, and I would like the old behavior
Windows used to always show the subdirectories (aka folders) first, regardless of sort order. It seems that several years ago, this was changed. I would like the original behavior where folders are ...
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Sorting files and folders by hexadecimal and decimal values
A while a go I needed to figure out how to sort my files by hexadecimal order. I found some very useful information in this awesome answer:
Adding "NoStrCmpLogical" as DWORD with a value of ...
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How can I arrange arbitrarily folders in Windows 10?
I want to sort some music folders by the release date, so I was wondering if there's a way to edit the metadata of the folder, because looking on the sort options, there's a "year" column, ...
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How can I make new subfolders created in a directory inherit the parent folder's sort type as default (such as "date modified")?
So I have a folder within which new folders containing images are frequently created. These images are frequently updated, and I prefer to set them to sort by "date modified" so the most ...
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How do I fix a sorting issue not related to numerical sorting in Windows File Explorer?
I'm familiar with numerical sorting where the issue is a number as a value or a string. I'm asking a different question.
I'd like to sort files in a way such that the file that includes a string after ...
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How to modify search order for ALL folders
what I mean by this is when you right-click in a folder, there is an option "More" By default, the only time-based sorting is Date Modified which takes very long, sometimes half a minute and ...
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Different sorting by name in Windows Explorer and other Apps
i noticed Windows Explorer and many apps like Winrar sort folders by name like this order:
(test
)test
.test
@test
_test
+test
0test
1test
atest
-atest
but in some other apps like 7z and unlocker, i ...
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Sort lines with "natural order" in Notepad++ like Windows Explorer?
Q: Is it possible to sort line with "natural order" (or what it calls, I'm not sure the correct name) like/similar to Windows Explorer? With or without plugin are fine
Demo lines:
text 1
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Display folders first in File Explorer search
Whenever I search for something (in this case "*") in File Explorer, folders appear mixed in with files:
Is there a way to make it display all folders at the top like it does outside of ...
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Applying View Options to Uploads
(First post here, so forgive me if I get anything wrong.)
I'm an artist, so I have a lot of image folders, and a lot of images in those folders. I order them by date to avoid confusion, but whenever I ...
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Windows Explorer filename sort order: why ×a before 'a?
Have a look at this filename sort order in Windows 10 Explorer:
The character ' is mostly sorted before ×. But why is it the other way around for 'a vs. ×a?
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How do I sort folders by most recently added files in Windows?
I use the sort by Date Modified a lot, but this is absolutely useless for folders as it always defaults to when the folder itself was created, not when new files are added to said folder. I need a way ...
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"Date modified" of downloaded file is in the past - Windows 10
I like to order most of my folders by "date modified". But sometimes I will download a file with a timestamp in the past. This is very disruptive to me (I have to check chrome downloads to ...
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What does # mean in Windows Explorer column?
What does # mean in the Windows Explorer column?
I've never seen something written in that column.
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How to replicate windows name sorting in linux?
I need to print a list of files to a text document in the same order they show in the windows explorer alphabetic sort, but I can't find any method of sorting with ls | sort that shows the exact same ...
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