GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 168663
Allow sorting/grouping by file type
Last modified: 2012-08-13 23:06:32 UTC
This bug is based on the bug opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/6967 "In Warty I have a folder with tons of still pics, bmp and jpg, and a few WMV video files. Normally when I sort them by type, all the video files are put the bottom, which make sit easy to find them. Now with Hoary, it doesn't work anymore, the WMV files are in the middle of all the bmp and jpg files, it's a pain to find them :o( I think Warty used the file extension to sort the files, hence "WMV" came after "bmp" then "jpg". But it looks like Hoary uses the "MIME" (?) description. "bmp" is called "Windows BMP image" and "WMV" is called "Microsfot WMV video". "Windows" comes after "Microsoft", and here you go, the video files end up lost in the middle of all the other image types :-/ Is there a way to change the sorting mechanism/method back to what it used to be ? Or is it configurable somewhere ?"
Is it really worth adding a "sort by extension" mechanism?
Nautilus 2.32.2.1 (over 6 years since bug first reported) (In reply to comment #1) > Is it really worth adding a "sort by extension" mechanism? Yes...... my goodness....... Yes! It's not just worth it....... It's an utter necessity. I read with horror, the response made by Seb Bacher: "I'm sure that some people have some files sorted in a best way with the type rather than the extension." I just don't see how this statement can be true. One can't rename files, or change extensions at whim, so how can anybody have them sorted in the best way, by using type?? It just doesn't work: /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/70603113.PMO /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/A9OL4VF8.PMO /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ADDR64C2.PM! /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ADDR64C2.PMR /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ALLADDS.PM! /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ALLADDS.PMR /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/B1EBOV2P.PMO /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/B1R3F2HD.PMO /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BEGJ8868.PMO /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BUSINESS.PM! /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BUSINESS.PMR /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/DESKTOP.PM0 /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/EOWM12D2.PMO In the above example, the directory contains many hundreds of files, and it is mission critical that I have them grouped together, for staged pasting into a new folder. It was a nightmare.... here's what i had to do: /home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN /home/mark/Temp data/CNM /home/mark/Temp data/pmi /home/mark/Temp data/PMM /home/mark/Temp data/singles I created dirs named by extension, then trolled thru admin, cutting and pasting files into appropriate dirs - just to sort them! In 2011 i'm having to figure out some micky mouse way of sorting files, when in windows explorer, it would have been ***** a single mouse click *****. In fact, to be fair.... what i should have done..... was: reboot to win7, and do the whole job using win explorer.
Oh yes, I should also have stated that I did try searching for *.ext but the search failed to function. Perhaps linux uses a different symbol to indicate "all".
Still valid in 3.1.4, however sounds like a WONTFIX.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48525 ***