SortMix: Why only for Name and Size?

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Bamsen
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SortMix: Why only for Name and Size?

Post by Bamsen »

Hi,

I have image files that need to be moved into already existing folders.
The name format for folders and files are different (for reasons :) ) so I create a custom column where the date format is the same.
But when I turn on mixed sort i still get directories and files separate.

The documentation says:

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Only works for name, path, size, date modified, date created, date accessed and attribute sorts.
When I have PathPart: in the search, SortMix: does not work at all.

The search I am using is:

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SortMix: endwith:pathpart:"D:\bilder\- Fotografi\- 2009" A-Label:="Dato" Add-Column:A:1 A:=Substitute(Substitute(Name:,"-",),"2009","09")
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Now I would like to sort on my custom "Dato" column and see which folders the files should belong in.

Is it not possible to make SortMix: work on ANY column?

My version is: 1.5.0.1355a (The latest at the time of posting)

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Re: SortMix: Why only for Name and Size?

Post by void »

Support for mixing all columns is on my TODO list.

For now, only name, path, size and date modified are supported.
(and date created and attributes if indexed)

The reason: it took a lot of code to get the performance of mixing just the name, size and date modified columns to a usable state.
Even now, mixing name, size and date modified is still not instant.

For small lists such as yours, the performance hit probably won't matter much.
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