Automatically sort files with Filesort

Do you have a folder with many files and file types in it ? Sorting those files reminds me a lot of two famous stories I heard when I was a child, namely those of Cinderella and Sisyphus. If you ever tried sorting a folder with 10000+ files you know what I mean. I always thought that it would be great to have a freeware that would help me presort the files and let me do the fine tuning afterwards.

Filesort is the freeware that I was looking for. Once downloaded and installed (it is only 100k) you simply pick a folder which files you want to sort and define some sorting rules. Filesort offers three different types of rules: File Name Rules, File Age Rules and File Size Rules. Click on new rule to add a new rule in one of the categories. If you wanted to move all mp3 movies you would add *.mp3 in the second tab of the new rule and enter a directory where those files should be placed instead.

Simple and effective. The same rules can be defined for file ages and file size. This could be nice for p2p incoming folders for instance as well. The only thing that bothers me is that you can’t define more than one rule to work together. For instance I could not move all mp3 files that are older than seven days to the new folder. It is either all mp3 files or all files that are older than seven days.

Maybe this will be added to the tool in the future. You may even schedule Filesort that it sorts files automatically every XX minutes.

Thanks to my reader P5chin for this nice tip.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Monday November 13, 2006 -
Tags:file-folder, filesort, freeware, huge-file, schedule-file-sort, sort-files, sort-files-age, sort-files-name, sort-files-size, Tools, windows-file

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1. Dan says:

   February 12, 2010 at 9:30 am

   Search “RoboBasket” in google you will find a powerful program which can automatically sort your files based on user created rules. You can sort your files based on name, size, date, mp3 tag, exif info, extension and more other attributes.

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