Solved How to organize folders within custom libraries?

[art2011]

Hello Everyone,

I recently created a custom library that contains folders located in separate disks on my system. I noticed that I can't change the way they are displayed when I view my library. For example my library looks like this

Library Camping Pics
Last Summer
Last Month
Yesterday

I want the folders to be displayed like this
Library Camping Pics
Yesterday
Last Month
Last Summer

Can I organize the folders the way I want them to be displayed? I tried the little "Arrange By" dropdown thing, didn't do anything..

 

[logicearth]

Prefix a number to the folder names...
Or set the sort as descending so Y comes before L.
Right-click > Sort by > Descending

 

[kado897]

One of the problems with Libraries is that there are only five templates. General Items, Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos so that if you have more than five libraries you can't set their layout independently.

 

[art2011]

Prefix a number to the folder names...
Or set the sort as descending so Y comes before L.
Right-click > Sort by > Descending

This doesn't work. For some reason the order does not change no matter what. I tried to select the library by single Left-click and going up to the "arrange by" control and nothing I select changes the order in which the folders are displayed. I even renamed them with a number prefix and the display still didn't change..

 

[kado897]

It's not Arrange by you need it is Sort by

 

[art2011]

One of the problems with Libraries is that there are only five templates. General Items, Documents, Music, Pictures and Videos so that if you have more than five libraries you can't set their layout independently.

I'm certainly not looking to recreate the wheel all I want to do is to have the ability to organize my library like..well..a library. Doesn't make sense to me if I'm limited to having the order in which my folders are displayed within my library based completely on the order in which I've added them and nothing else.

 

[kado897]

See my previous post

 

[art2011]

OK, forgive my ignorance, I've right clicked and cannot find the "sort by" command. Is it within Windows Explorer somewhere?

 

[kado897]

Open the library and right click in an empty space not occupied by icons.



You want Sort by->Name

 

[art2011]

Thank You, but this still doesn't change the display order of the folders. I tried all the options and nothing changes..what am I doing wrong? I'm perplexed..

 

[kado897]

Not sure. It works for me. Can you post a screenshot of the library in question?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[art2011]

Sure..OK here you see the test library I created "Camping Pics". It is comprised of three folders located in different areas of my system. Within each folder is a dummy image. I tried adding a number prefix, because I have used that trick successfully on my hard drive to organize some folders. Here I cannot get it to work..

 

[kado897]

Ah I see. You need to right click and select Group by->(none). That will get rid of the grouping and then sort will work. It only works within a group if you have grouping.

 

[art2011]

Excellent! I discovered I am also able to select which attributes I choose to display with the "Sort By-->More.." option. Now that is definitely what I was looking for. Thank You!

 

[kado897]

You are welcome art2011. Why not check out our tutorials section. There is some excellent information there.

 

[art2011]

Thank You! Will definitely check those out.