how to sort folders with name format "dd-mm-yy vacation x" inchronological order??

[Alex]

Hi all,

I have spent the last one hour trying to figure out how windows sorts
files and folders alphabetically and I give up! (win xp home sp3 in
windows explorer window)

What I want to do is the following:
For each holiday I have a folder containing pictures. The folders are
all named in the same format, namely "dd-mm-yy country" WITHOUT the
quotes.
I want windows to sort these folders chronologically and do this
automatically.
Example:
01-01-07 Spain
30-07-07 Greece
01-12-07 France
10-10-08 Egypt
Which is sorted chronologically

When in explorer I select the option to sort files by name, I get
this:
30-07-07 Greece
10-10-08 Egypt
01-12-07 France
01-01-07 Spain
Which is not chronological.

When I let windows sort by "last edited on..." this is not correct
either since I may have edited old files at a later date which will
get a new and more recent timestamp which can be 2 years after I made
them.

Your help is very much appreciated!

 

[Big_Al]

Hi all,

I have spent the last one hour trying to figure out how windows sorts
files and folders alphabetically and I give up! (win xp home sp3 in
windows explorer window)

What I want to do is the following:
For each holiday I have a folder containing pictures. The folders are
all named in the same format, namely "dd-mm-yy country" WITHOUT the
quotes.
I want windows to sort these folders chronologically and do this
automatically.
Example:
01-01-07 Spain
30-07-07 Greece
01-12-07 France
10-10-08 Egypt
Which is sorted chronologically

When in explorer I select the option to sort files by name, I get
this:
30-07-07 Greece
10-10-08 Egypt
01-12-07 France
01-01-07 Spain
Which is not chronological.

When I let windows sort by "last edited on..." this is not correct
either since I may have edited old files at a later date which will
get a new and more recent timestamp which can be 2 years after I made
them.

Your help is very much appreciated!

Unfortunately other than sorting by creation date which just don't work
either, the date in the name is part of a string and not really a date
so you can sort. Its a problem with your brain (the human brain) in
that you see it and do the translation but the PC can't.
I do my 10,000 photos in gobs of folders by the YYYY-MM-DD format.

2007 10 01 - Kids Birthday
2007 12 25 - Xmas
2008 01 01 - New Years
2008 05 04 - Another item.

Its the only way I can get them to work right. I've been trying for 4
years. I'm open to ideas, but this works.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Hi all,

I have spent the last one hour trying to figure out how windows sorts
files and folders alphabetically and I give up! (win xp home sp3 in
windows explorer window)

What I want to do is the following:
For each holiday I have a folder containing pictures. The folders are
all named in the same format, namely "dd-mm-yy country" WITHOUT the
quotes.
I want windows to sort these folders chronologically and do this
automatically.
Example:
01-01-07 Spain
30-07-07 Greece
01-12-07 France
10-10-08 Egypt
Which is sorted chronologically

When in explorer I select the option to sort files by name, I get
this:
30-07-07 Greece
10-10-08 Egypt
01-12-07 France
01-01-07 Spain
Which is not chronological.

When I let windows sort by "last edited on..." this is not correct
either since I may have edited old files at a later date which will
get a new and more recent timestamp which can be 2 years after I made
them.

Your help is very much appreciated!

You have to use a file naming format like:

yy-mm-dd country
OR
yyyy-mm-dd country

So you'd have to rename them.
And then also (IIRC) there is a registry setting to use the *original*
numerical sorting order, instead of the newer one defaulted to by WinXP
(which you can address later).

 

[Alex]

You have to use a file naming format like:

yy-mm-dd  country
OR
yyyy-mm-dd  country

So you'd have to rename them.
And then also (IIRC) there is a registry setting to use the *original*
numerical sorting order, instead of the newer one defaulted to by WinXP
(which you can address later).

Awesome, thank you very much for your fast and simple help, Big_Al and
Bill in Co.! I changed all the names to yyyy-mm-dd format and now
windows sorts them correctly.