If you have a large directory of files that has become just to messy to work effectively with, you may want to move those files into appropriate directories. We have already covered Extension Indexer, a program that lets you sort files based on their file extension. FileSieve now lets you sort files based on a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Extension Indexer, Sort Files By Extension
Windows Explorer is optimized for single-folder operations. Here you can sort the files by file extension, name or date for instance. It becomes problematic if you want to do that for a folder and all of its subfolders. While you might be able to use the search for a workaround that works so-so, it is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Sortable Headers In All Windows Explorer View Modes
Files and folders can be viewed in various view modes in Windows Explorer. From extra large icons over details and lists to the extended view mode. If you pay attention to the window, you will notice that the header area is not displayed when most of the view modes are selected. Extra large, large, medium [...]
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Organize Files, By Sorting Them With Digital Janitor
I have one folder on my computer that I save all web downloads to, regardless of file type, size or purpose. Many of the files are only temporary downloads, for instance setup files of applications that I test, demonstration videos that I watch once or documents that I want to read. Some files on the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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FileMess, Pattern-Based File Sorting
If you ever had to sort a huge amount of files stored in the same folder you know that automation can speed up the sorting considerably. Maybe you want to sort the folder with hundreds of mp3 files that you have downloaded or recorded, maybe a download folder that you never cleared before. FileMess is [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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DropIt Copies Files Based On Their Name And Extension
There are basically two types of computer users when it comes to organizing files on a computer system. Type a sorts files neatly in folders based on type or other criteria while type b likes to put all files into one folder that is growing immensely over time. The ever growing single folder can slow [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Sort Files Folders Automatically
If you are a messy downloader – that is someone who likes to place all downloads into one folder which grows very large in size over time – you might need a tool to sort the files and folders in that download folder automatically. There are other scenarios where sorting files and folders might come [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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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.