![]() ![]() Lifehacker Australia runs all the best tips and posts from the US, eliminating the ones that are irrelevant for Aussies and adding our own daily helping of tips and tricks with an Australian focus. ![]() We provide tips for technology and for life which you can use to make yourself more productive, with an emphasis on free software and tools you can put to use online. RSS | Twitter | Facebook Part technology guide, part productivity tool, Lifehacker helps you organise your workday and maximise your playtime. About h1 Email tips or questions to the: Lifehacker Tips Box Phone: +61 2 8667 5444 How to contact our team.Got your own question you want to put to Lifehacker? Send it using our. What’s your favoured method to finding missing files? Tell us in the comments. Sorting can be handy to find specific files, but don’t forget to give the search option a go. In groups mode, shift clicking an option, after sorting by a different option, works as a third parameter.Įssentially, the grouping just makes it visually easier to see the groups, and relegates shift clicking to selecting a third parameter only. Clicking the same sorting name as the group, changes the order of the overall groups. To use Groups, right click in the File Explorer window and select ‘Group by’, with the same options as the tabs across the top.įrom there, clicking each of the individual tabs (no shift clicks needed), sorts the individual files in the groups by the different methods. ![]() It is slower to switch between different sortings methods though, and the underlying functionality is the same. The more intuitive and easier to see system of sorting is to use groupings. It sounds complex, but shift clicks are a quick and easy way to order files as needed once you know the underlying mechanism.įurther options such as excluding certain date ranges, or sizes, can be accessed by hovering over the tab in question, and clicking the little down arrow tab that appears. To reset back to the start, clicking some other sorting method aside from Type is needed, before selecting it again. Another shift click is inputted as a third sorting parameter, even after clicking Type again. For example, if sorting by Type, then shift clicking Name, clicking Type again changes the order of the Type categories, but keeps the name order of individual files. One important thing - Windows ‘remembers’ the sorting you have done, which can make it feel like the system is suddenly broken if you don’t know what’s going on. It’s important to note though, that the final Size or Name sorting doesn’t override the date sorting – it only applies to items with the same creation date. If instead you sort by Type, then Shift click Date, then shift clicking Size or Name sorts by a third parameter. In the case of Name, then Date or Size, nothing happens, as you can’t have two files with the same name to further sort. Likewise, Shift Clicking Date or Size instead orders the individual files in the overall groups by date and size, and the reverse order on a second shift click.įrom here, it’s possible to shift click a third parameter. Holding down SHIFT and clicking Name (after sorting by type), orders the individual files in each type group in reverse alphabetical order, without changing the alphabetical order of the types themselves. Clicking again puts them the types reverse alphabetical order.īy default, the files in each Type group are already arranged by name, in alphabetical order. The types are in alphabetical order by type name, such as Application, JPG, PDF etc, with folders at the top. Make sure you are using File Explorer in detail mode – if not, click the little details icon in the bottom right of the Window.įrom there, clicking Type (top middle of the window), sorts by file type. ![]() We will also take a look at using the Groups function for sorting. Let’s go back to the beginning for a minute, and go over how the shift click should work. Shift clicking has a few peculiar rules in our experience. ![]()
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