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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?

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I do something similar with...

Submitted by aef on September 5, 2007 - 2:35am.

noodle;10217 wrote:
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.

I like YYYY-MM-DD. It's an ISO standard, it's sortable, and it's unambiguous (useful when communicating with both UKians and North Americans).

aef

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