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Lupin:

--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on May 01, 2011, 10:12:22 PM ---Not exactly. AFAIK, Lupin's suggestion is to use the Dir command, which lists the contents of a directory, to create a text dump of the contents of a directory in the desired order (default is alphabetic, but you should be able to tweak it a bit using parameters). In short, use the command to create a text file containing a list of the files/folders you have in a directory.

Then, you can just open this text file and see your files in the desired order.

The script is just something you can run by double-clicking it, which makes your life easier by saving you from typing out the whole command every time you want to create the text dump.

So, if it wasn't clear enough, this won't do anything to actually reorder your files. It'll just give you an alternative way to view your files, in which the order of the files is changed to your liking.

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This is correct.

AFAIK windows saves the folder settings in the registry for a particular drive and port. when the drive is connected to a different port, either it generates a new registry entry or overwrites the old one.

Possible solutions I can think of:
1. my earlier post. screw it. I misunderstand what you want. while it can help with organizing your stuff, it won't do what you wanted
2. take a screenshot of the folder. lol
3. revise your naming convention for files/folders.

# 3 is the easiest to do.

TifaLockhart:
Hmm, any 3rd party software which does this? Something which memorizes the order of your files? I kinda have a COD so when stuff gets jumbled up, it kinda makes me want to pull my hair out, esp. when there are hundreds of folders.

I've seen how System Restore/Shadow Copies of the system can actually bring you back to a period in time where you saved right down till the positioning of the files, thing is it probably will be taking alot of redundant space seeing as it will be actually making restoring copies of the drive itself.

Freedom Kira:
The simplest (yet maybe the most tedious) way is probably Lupin's third suggestion. Rename all your folders to start with "Anime - new" or "Anime - old" or "Miscellaneous" or whatever else. Then, have your system order files by name or type by default. Heck, it should do that by default anyway.

TifaLockhart:

--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on May 02, 2011, 03:44:35 AM ---The simplest (yet maybe the most tedious) way is probably Lupin's third suggestion. Rename all your folders to start with "Anime - new" or "Anime - old" or "Miscellaneous" or whatever else. Then, have your system order files by name or type by default. Heck, it should do that by default anyway.

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Yes, but default just isnt the way it's suppose to be, take for eg. some episodes in a series are named in such away that the episodes does not arrange from 1-12 when "arrange by name". I like to know which is the series i watched in chronological order as well which the default auto arrange settings does not provide for, i do keep a list of it in chronological order however, i prefer for both the actual and data to be one and the same instead of being different, esp. when i'm looking for what to watch.
Its fine and perfect if the files are actually created by me, giving me the opportunity to name them however way i want, but when files are downloaded, i tend to respect the name it comes with as well as seeding issues hence i keep them in their original form.

It's an issue I've been putting up with up till now so I'm not really complaining, but lamenting against the cruel idea that such a simple thing as organizing digital data according to individual needs can't be perform hassle free when it should have been something which comes intuitively.

kitamesume:
do this, copy the file into a different folder and delete the old copy, move the new copy back, it should now have a creation date of that time you copied it. now try and rightclick your folder and arrange OR group them by date created, it should sort things out to oldest to newest of date or vice versa.

if the option of sorting it via "date created" is missing, press "more" just below the dropbox and find the checkbox "date created", check it and rerightclick the folder and sort it by date created.

now this is a fascinating trick to make it more unique, change your clock on your lower right into your desired date and do the above.

this type of trick is permanent, unless you replace the files with newer or older copies, even if you transfer the storage device into a different pc, as long as you sort it by date created on the rightclick dropbox then it should sort things instantly. moving the files too doesnt change the date created so its safe to move it around.

i came up with this trick just a few minutes ago, i do sort files via date created so i`d knew when i downloaded them but forcefully changing the date created is... you know =P

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