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Sort Month and Year
Posted: 21 Sep 2016 00:02
by 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?
Re: Sort Month and Year
Posted: 21 Sep 2016 00:43
by 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
Re: Sort Month and Year
Posted: 21 Sep 2016 14:04
by 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.)
Re: Sort Month and Year
Posted: 21 Sep 2016 16:54
by 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.
Re: Sort Month and Year
Posted: 21 Sep 2016 18:44
by admin
... using this Batch Rename pattern after the list is sorted as wished:
Re: Sort Month and Year
Posted: 21 Sep 2016 21:39
by Turion
@highend
Thanks for the illustrated solution!
@admin
Thanks! That's an awesome script!
@RalphM
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Thanks!