I apologise, I foolishly joined this thread half-way through without
reading all the relevant posts...
To do the same as I advised in my last post, but in a Open / Save As...
dialogue box, then instead of using what I called "the Top Menus" "View"
"List" (& etc.,) just click on the button in the Open / Save As... boxes
that reads "View Menu" when your mouse hovers over it, and select the
appropriate item (Icons, Tiles,
Thumbnails, (Filmstrip, in some instances) or List views)....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"Tim Meddick" wrote in message
...
If your folder is displaying files and folders with folders at the
bottom...then I will attempt to describe the process using the following
procedure :
Then to make it appear the normal way that yours apparently does not
(folders at the bottom) this is what you would do :
Change the view to "details" (from top menus - "View" "Details" ),
then, click on "Name" from the menu headings that appear only in
"Details" view.
This will re-arrange the file / folder order to : "Sort-by-name" (you
may have to click on the heading more than once to get the files /
folders in the right order - i.e. folders at the top in order of name
followed by files, also sorted by name).
Then, while the folders are at the top, choose from the "top menus"
again; "View" "List" (or whatever you had the displayed as ; Icons,
Tiles, Thumbnails, (Filmstrip, in some instances) or List views) and the
sort-order should remain the way it was set when in "Details" view ....
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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In message , Elmo
writes:
On 11/8/2010 5:28 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Stan
Brown
writes:
On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:27:18 -0500, Elmo wrote:
On 11/7/2010 4:56 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
The default order that directories and files are in a save/load
box is
directories first (in alphanumeric order), followed by files
(ditto).
I seem to have done something that alters this - the files and
directories shown to me in Save/Load boxes are in some other order
(creation/modification date maybe?) Since date isn't shown in a
Save/Load
box, I can't verify that).
How do I put it back?
Open the folders in Explorer, select Detail View and change the
order
for those folders. If that doesn't work, try Kelly's fix that sets
the
That didn't work. I just tried to save your post, to a given
directory.
I got a save (actually "Export", but that's just this email software -
it's the same if I use "Save" or "Open" in other applications) window
showing the contents of that folder, with the sub-folders in the order
m-, b-, a, f-, J-, d-, a- ... so I hit Cancel, and opened the same
folder in Explorer, and selected View, Details. (Which is what I
usually
have in Explorer anyway.) Then I tried to save (Export) the email
again.
Same order in the Save window.
Here's the whole procedure, and a possible explanation. I found it with
a Google Search:
Thanks - it's difficult to know what to search for.
http://www.technologyquestions.com/t...5828-file-sort
-order-reversed-wrong-file-open-file-save-dialog-box.html
Unfortunately, it didn't work - neither the My Computer | Explore, View
List, sort icons by, Ctrl-X (tried for both C: and D
, nor doing the
same in the actual save box itself as suggested by another in the
thread. Though as an interim measure at least knowing I can resort a
save/load window itself will help.
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Most of Kelly's tweaks are registry edits.. I forgot that one was a
program. I wouldn't use it either.
Glad you agree (-:
And -- very important -- hold down the Ctrl key while closing the
dialog box with the red X. (Or it might be the Shift key, or Ctrl-
I now realise that is sort of the same as the one you found, but it
specifies Detail View rather than List View.
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