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Bug 605151 - Allow to sort on 'Data Accessed' (atime) in Nautilus IconView
Allow to sort on 'Data Accessed' (atime) in Nautilus IconView
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Views: Icon View
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-12-21 17:29 UTC by Sense Hofstede
Modified: 2012-08-14 20:55 UTC
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Description Sense Hofstede 2009-12-21 17:29:57 UTC 
Currently it is not possible to sort on 'Data Accessed' (atime) in Nautilus IconViews. Although atime is not always completely reliable I still suggest to allow sorting on atime in IconView as well since some users find it really useful to use this to see what files are new in a directory.

This bug was originally reported by omair on Launchpad in Ubuntu at <https://launchpad.net/bugs/390532>.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 20:55:00 UTC 
Yeah we had this recently actually but it turns out for various reasons that the accessed time is completely bogus and doesn't get updated. We removed the ability to sort by this field. I think this is unfortunate.