Erica

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Erica @erica7/18/2023, 4:57 AM

Me —

Sort by Date, Descending

Microsoft™ Windows 10 —

Gotcha, I'll take all these files and sort by Date, and reference the date based on the Assyrian calendar plus or minus the Gregorian calendar, depending on the phase of the moon and the current wind speed in Redmond, WA.

Me —

what

Microsoft™ Windows 10 —

Don't worry about it, here are your files in order but these files that you haven't touched in six years are now listed first. The math just worked out that way.

Me —

If I mean by Date I mean by Date last edited/saved, that's how files work.

Microsoft™ Windows 10 —

You'll want Date Modified for that. You can find it in the Explorer context menu, and you'll have to enable it for every folder manually every time. Also I'll forget the setting on occasion in case you want the Date method I provided above.

Me —

Microsoft™ Windows 10 —

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Microsoft™ Windows 10 —

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bitch

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Froey @froey7/18/2023, 10:25 AM

Upgraded to Windows 11 and the sorting in Windows Explorer still doesn't do what I tell it to do. :host-stare:

Kuroko @CrocoDraws7/18/2023, 1:04 PM

I really miss winXP, it would treat us right.

The way they fumble this kind of things nowadays (why fix what isnt broken??) make it seem like deliberate malice (Hanlon's razor got dull from intensive use)

Violet Rose in The Rain @VioletRoseinTheRain7/18/2023, 2:51 PM

Is this made with CSS? Cool.

Jonah @jonahbron7/18/2023, 4:19 PM

Legit though this was a Bing Chat convo at first

Emily @Saone7/18/2023, 8:02 PM

For your consideration, you can ls (list) directory contents with coreutils in Windows Terminal if you install WSL or use Cygwin or something.

I often use ls -altrh:

-a shows all files in a directory
-l shows the long listing including file sizes
-t sorts it by time, most recent at the top
-r reverses the display, so the most recent stuff is at the bottom, useful for seeing the most recent files even if the terminal has to scroll
-h displays file sizes in human-readable sizes, which may also be useful.

For example:
terminal example

This, of course, requires some comfort with terminals. Maybe it'll be helpful?

There are also other file explorers that you can use on Windows, but they're all pretty ugly and kinda miserable, imo.

Terry T. Student @tstudent7/27/2023, 2:58 PM

I think "Date" means "the date from the file's metadata, or the last modified date as a fallback". Only really useful for photo galleries, I think