For files selected for processing, sorting by full path is required

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Jensen Head
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For files selected for processing, sorting by full path is required

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Currently, it is possible to select documents from all subfolders for processing. This is good. But this feature is devalued by the impossibility of automatically sorting documents first by folders, and then by file names within each folder:
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Choose Input Files sorting.gif
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See what it looks like:
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FAR Manager.png
Microsoft Windows File Explorer.png
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Isn't it amazing why it wasn't done in the first place?
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Re: For files selected for processing, sorting by full path is required

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Hello, Jensen Head

Thank you for the request, after some though I have taken this a step further, instead of suggesting we combine the name and location column into one as you see in your last screenshot, I have created a ticket suggesting we allow secondary sorting, and many windows apps now offer. This would allow you to select any column, such as name, or modified, or size, and then choose the location column, and have all files within each "group" sorted as per the previously selected sorting method.

#6202: FR: Tools to allow secondary sorting

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Dan McIntyre - Support Technician
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