Re: Reverse Date Sorted Directory Names

Operating systems do not sort file names in a directory. It is only the application you are using to display the file names that is sorting them so determine what option your particular application uses to reverse the sort order and use that.

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Re^2: Reverse Date Sorted Directory Names by grantm (Parson) on Oct 23, 2009 at 07:03 UTC
I think you'll find that by default most graphical and command line file management tools will sort directory contents alphabetically. So I'm using this technique to ensure that one particular directory is sorted in the most useful order by default. This technique does nothing that would stop people using different sorting options if they so desired - it just means that they probably won't need to.	[reply]

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Re^2: Reverse Date Sorted Directory Names
by grantm (Parson) on Oct 23, 2009 at 07:03 UTC

I think you'll find that by default most graphical and command line file management tools will sort directory contents alphabetically. So I'm using this technique to ensure that one particular directory is sorted in the most useful order by default. This technique does nothing that would stop people using different sorting options if they so desired - it just means that they probably won't need to.

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