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organize files by date put in folder

capo | Aug 31 2007

> * Is there a way to organize a particular folder so that it can
> present the files in that folder (in list view), by the date that I
> put the files into that folder, not the date the file was created or
> modified?

‹ Is my Address Book missing something? I have a lot of hard drives I use for backup... ›
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I do something similar with...

Submitted by noodle on September 1, 2007 - 4:11pm.

I do something similar with some of my files. In the US, our convention is MM/DD/YY. Which sucks when trying to organize by date. I had to switch it around to the way everyone else in the world does it.

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