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"Roel Schroeven" <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
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> Shawna wrote:
>> Dear Howdy
\, Your suggestion sounded promising. Thanks for the idea.
>> However, highlighting the files has no effect on sorting that I can tell.
>> The folders are put either at the top or at the bottom next to the oldest
>> files in both cases. I want the folders at the top with the newest files
>> next to them as windows explorer used to do it.
>
> Not a solution, but at least a workaround could be to use Explorer in its
> two-pane mode (directory tree left and files right). That way you can see
> both your most recent files (in the right pane) and the folders (in the
> left pane).
>
> --
> "Codito ergo sum"
> Roel Schroeven
Hi Shawna, I just read through your webpage and you have my sympathies. This
must be very frustrating. After looking at your screen shots I checked my
own computer (XP Pro) and noticed some things about the sort order that
can't be seen from your screen shots. When looking in a folder with a large
number of both files AND a large number of folders, such as the Windows
folder, and changing the sort, you can see that when sorting old to new the
folders are first sorted old to new then the files are sorted below them,
old to new.
When sorting new to old, the files are first sorted new to old and then
below then the folders are sorted new to old. All of your folders have the
same date on your screen shot so it isn't obvious from that picture that the
files and folders are both being sorted by date modified.
Unless you can get into the program that determines the sort order and
change it so that folders are sorted before files, no matter whether old to
new, or new to old, you'll probably have to live with the system default.
But if you look at a folder like "windows" you will see that there are so
many files and folders there that no matter which sort order was taking
place, it's not probable that the recent folders and recently changed files
will appear together in the screen. In other words, if you scroll down to
where the files end and the folders begin (in the old to new sort) you'll
see very old files on top of brand new folders. If you reverse the sort and
again scroll down to where folders meet files, although folders are now on
top, where the folder list meets the file list you have very new folders on
top of very old files.
To get the result you seem to be after, with new files next to new folders,
the system would have to just sort everything in the folder, without keeping
files with files and folders with folders, but intermixing them all
together.
I have a suggestion I didn't see anyone else make to you. Why not create a
new folder, subfolder if you will, and move your most frequently used files
and folders into it. Then you wouldn't have to scroll to see them all in one
window. The only place this might not work would be if some program is also
using that file. In that case, moving it to a new folder might keep the
program from being able to find it.
Food for thought, perhaps.
Larry Davis
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