sketcher Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 This may be more of a MAC question, but maybe someone can help. I need to keep an ongoing history of drawing as they get changed. I put a date in the actual name, but it goes in alpha numeric order, thus putting the oldest drawing first. Is there a way to keep the most recent up top? renaming differently or something like that. Again I realize this may not be the best place to ask, but then again,I have noticed aot of great ideas and work arounds in this forum THANX in advance Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 In Finder you can sort by date. Give PathFinder a look ...= Finder on steriods. http.www.cocoatech.com Quote Link to comment
sketcher Posted July 2, 2008 Author Share Posted July 2, 2008 but that changes all the folders all the time ? ugh! PS.could not open web site Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 You could use List view (instead of column) and switch the direction of sorting for the file name column. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 format your date like this: 2008-07-02 Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 we do the same without the dashes, but it still has the issue Sketcher was complaining about, the most recent is at the bottom of the list, when listed alpha/numerically. Quote Link to comment
M.CH Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Just use the list view with date created or date modified as your primary organiser, so you have file by date order regardless of name Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 As a stupid windows user, I'm surprised that the alphanumeric order can't be inverted by clicking on the header. Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted July 2, 2008 Share Posted July 2, 2008 Yes even on a lowly mac one can click at the top of any column in list view and reverse the sort order. But on the Mac, there is view mode beyond icon or list, called column view, that is always in Descending order regardless of if you are sorting by name, date type size, whatever. In a way you can think of it as a Horizontal File Explorer view, that shows your items relative to the path. For the Mac users that didn't know that you can change a column views sort type, open the folder you want to sort differently in column view, and hit apple-j or go to the menu bar to view and select view options. there you can change what the column view sorts by. HTH, ion Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 For the record, I wasn't sniping at Macs. Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 For the record, I wasn't sniping at Macs. Quote Link to comment
ionw Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 I guess I missed the irony label! ;-) No worries. Ion Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 brudgers, Funny, I just posted a message and posted twice. Seems like the message board is flaking out. Quote Link to comment
sketcher Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 the only problem with sorting by date created or modified, is that it changes EVERYTHING in the hosting folder. Sometimes Apple thinks they're improving things, when in fact they destroy the things that made a MAC a MAC!!! Thanks all for the help. Quote Link to comment
mralistair Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 this bugs me about macs and windows, we use the reverse date thing 2008-03-31 but for you americans that probably makes less sense. what bugs me is that you cant sort by 'file type' AND 'date' so it sorts by type then orders those by name or date or size or whatever, at the moment you can only sort by 'whatever' and name seems really basic but absent in mac os and windows Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 That's how I incorporate date into my file names...except without the leading "20" since it doesn't carry any information. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 I used to not use the leading 20, but found it much easier to see the date at a glance with the leading 20. Quote Link to comment
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