Windows 10: How do I sort a large number of folders in name date order

I am trying to sort a large list of folders in to actual date orderAs in 01 Jan 95, followed by 02 Jan 95 all the way to 31 Dec 24How is this done ?

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Sort folders by name, but files inside by date?

Hi, I've recently ran into a conundrum that I can't find a solution to. I am trying to organise my collection of photographs. Since a lot of photos only have a random set of letters and numbers for a name (such as IMG_78953), it makes sense to order them in their folders by the date the photos were created. HOWEVER, it also makes sense to sort FOLDERS in alphabetic order for easier search and access. So far, I coudln't achieve both at the same time.

I can either sort photos by date and then all the folders are sorted by date as well, making it impossible to find anything when needed, or sort folders in my catalogue by name, and then all the photographs are arranged in alphabetical order as well, making it, again, impossible to find anything. I have around 20.000 photos and 80 folders. Opening each folder separately and manually setting the sort order inside is not an option.

Is there a way to set the order of FOLDERS separately from the order of the FILES? Thanks in advance for any info.

 

Possible in Explorer to sort files by date, but folders by name in same pane?

I believe this is not possible, and hasn't changed since Windows Vista or 7, but figured I'll ask and maybe learn something new in Windows 11.

I know that I can sort files by date and folders appear above them by clicking on the "Date modified" column heading, then while holding Shift key, click on the Name column heading, which causes folders to appear at the top about the date-sorted file list. So close.

The only problem with this is that folders are sorted by date too. Is there any way to get the folders to appear sorted by name, while maintaining that the file list below them remains sorted by date?

I know you can navigate folders alphabetically via the left navigation, but that's painful, because drilling down folders on the left creates a huge long unwieldy list of folders that makes future navigation slow (or you have to manually go through and close the folders, which again wastes time). My current work-around is to instead use the drop-down in the Address bar, which always sorts folder names alphabetically, but the problem with this is that the right most drop-down arrow for the current folder goes away as soon as you click outside the window and only comes back if you move between folders (seems like a bug), plus it requires an extra click and hitting a small drop-down arrow target, as opposed to just showing the folder list in the Explorer window in this order:





That's not a bad work-around, but I would still much prefer a way to just list the folders in Explorer in alphabetic order above the files sorted by date. Is there any way to do that?

 

Sort by date added to folder

Hi there, thanks for your question.

In File Explorer, all sorting options can be viewed by following these steps:

- Open the folder and right click inside of it, not on a file.

- Go to Sort by > More.

This brings up a list of all possibilities of what to sort by. It doesn't look like there's an options for "date added to folder", but one of the other Date options may help, such as Date Created. You could create a copy of the file and move it in, so that
the date created matches the date added to the folder?

Please let me know if you need more information! Thanks!