Sort Month and Year

[Turion]

I have some folders named with the months of the year like

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April
August
December
February
January
July
June
March
May
November
October
September

What's the easiest way to sort these folders in the natural month order like this?

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January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Can the sort order be Windows Explorer friendly?

[highend]

You could use a custom column to get that kind of sorting

You have to use the custom column to sort the contents then...

The script:

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    $months = "January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December";
    $index = gettokenindex(<cc_base>, $months, , "i");
    return ($index) ? $index : 13;

How the setup of the cc looks like:

CC.png

And here is how it would look like:

CC in action.png

[admin]

Or you run this through the Address Bar:

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SortByList "January|February|March|April|May|June|July|August|September|October|November|December", "|";

(No, it's not Explorer friendly. Explorer cannot do this.)

[RalphM]

Probably the easiest way that doesn't need any special handling afterwards would be to rename the folders to:
01_January
02_February
...
If you can live with the imperfection but simplicity of this approach.

[admin]

... using this Batch Rename pattern after the list is sorted as wished:

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<#01>_*

[Turion]

@highend
Thanks for the illustrated solution!

@admin
Thanks! That's an awesome script!

@RalphM
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks!