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Win 7 sort by date issue - 2011 files/folders now "A Long Time Ago"
Hello there & Happy New Year. :)
I have encountered this particular inconvenience on the 2nd day of 2012 while i was transfering photos and files into my PC with Win7.
In my Win7 PC, all files/folders created or modified within Dec'2011 and earlier are now all grouped under as "A Long Time Ago". This happens when I changed the folder to be "Group by Date" or "Group by Date Modified" with a combo of "Sort by type". I tried sorting in different ways of view to see if I can get it back to what it should be. Then i realised even folder newly created on 25 Dec 2011 is also grouped as "A Long Time Ago" too. I am not sure if this is an intended feature.
The only helpful part is that i will still see the newer files in chronological order if I sort by date modified on top of group by date modified.
I have been using this setting for folder view even for Win XP. As for Win XP, i will get "Yesterday", "Last Week", "Last Month", "Last Year", "Two Years Ago" and ultimately the whole chunk of much older files under "A Long Time Ago". Such perfect chronological order.
I tried to google for a while and not much of returns to this issue I am having. Perhaps majority of people does not group their files/folders in such way. But for me, I like the way how it was displayed that I know i have edited/created/moved whichever files/folders last year, the previous month or yesterday.
I hope someone is able to enlighten me on this one and for others who is also looking for an answer. Thank you.