Sorting files table by depth of direcory in structure

krtek · 2008-08-13 00:58

Hi,
I'm quite suggestive tonight That's the last one

I'm thinking about the problem of need to rename subfolders before parent folders and I came up to an idea of sorting files table accordingly to the depth of folder in the directory structure.
So it would need to find the deepest folder in the files table (accordingly to the number of \ in the path ) and then sort the files table in the descending order:
first files from the deepest folders, next deepest folders, next files from folders second to the bottom and so on...

Thanks to such sorting we would be able to rename whole directory tree in one go with quite a big certainty that everything will be ok.

Andrew · 2008-08-13 09:53

krtek, isn't this suggestion just a response to my suggestion #3 here - http://www.den4b.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2377#p2377? Why not post it as a reply there instead of opening a new topic for the same thing?

krtek · 2008-08-13 12:39

Andrew,
To be honest it's a response to clapps problem (http://www.den4b.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=489&p=1)
But it definitely concerns your #1 and #3 suggestions from the topic you've mentioned.
I was so focused about your #4 suggestion, that I forgot that topic started from something similar

One more evidence of importance not to mix to many subjects in one topic
I will leave it as it is. It will ease discussion.

Last edited by krtek (2008-08-13 12:44)

Andrew · 2008-08-13 15:19

No problem! Let's leave it here and hope Denis responds to say if this is possible or not...

den4b · 2008-11-18 02:56

Guys, are you totally missing out on the sorting feature and extra columns of the files table?!

Rick-click on the table's column to get a full list of available columns, then enable "Folder" or "Path" columns, left-click on it twice once it is visible - and there you go, files are sorted in reverse order by their depth/path. Now you can safely rename your directory structures. This has been covered a number of times I think.

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Sorting files table by depth of direcory in structure

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