Making files in subfolders sort by "Date" or "Date Taken" by default?


  1. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Professional (x64) SP1
       #1

    Making files in subfolders sort by "Date" or "Date Taken" by default?


    (Running Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1)
    I'm a professional photographer and have recently begun shooting with two cameras simultaneously at events. They use different file names to avoid duplicate names/confusion, i.e. IMG_175000 and XMG_175000. Often times I'll take a photo with one camera and then take a photo immediately after it with the other camera and I'd like both of these images to be organized in the same subfolder and shown sequentially, but by default Windows Explorer lists all the "XMG_######" photos at the end and the IMG_###### photos at the beginning. I can manually sort each individual folder by going to "Sort by - Date" or even better, selecting "Sort by - More... and putting a check mark next to "Date Taken" so that it shows up in the Sort options (which it doesn't automatically) and then sorting by Date Taken, but since I'm dealing with hundreds of subfolders with hundreds of thousands of photo and video files I'd like a way to do this for all the files in these subfolders that isn't manual.

    Is there a way to make Windows Explorer automatically arrange every file (both image and movie files) inside the various subfolders inside one root folder by Date or Date Taken instead of automatically always sorting them by name?

    Thanks in advance!
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  2. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello XMGING, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    If you like, you could set a folder how you like it, then use the method in the tutorial below to apply it to all folders that use the same folder template.

    Folder View - Apply to Folders

    Hope this helps, :)
    Shawn
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