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Sorting Files by Multiple Fields

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Melodeath

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Dec 9, 2009
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I am trying to sort my files by date and type. I can sort by Modified Date and File Type. Every time I sort by file type, the files are listed alphabetically within their folder type lists. This is not what I want. I want to see all the .rar files in chronological order

As I recall from Windows, I can sort by Modified Date, then Type, and the files will be listed by type, and then secondarily sorted by Date. Is there a way to do this on the Mac?

I'm on 10.6.5
 
Melodeath said:
I am trying to sort my files by date and type. I can sort by Modified Date and File Type. Every time I sort by file type, the files are listed alphabetically within their folder type lists. This is not what I want. I want to see all the .rar files in chronological order

As I recall from Windows, I can sort by Modified Date, then Type, and the files will be listed by type, and then secondarily sorted by Date. Is there a way to do this on the Mac?

I'm on 10.6.5
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You could create a smart folder that searches for .rar type files the can then sort that list by date.
 
Could you explain that a bit more? I don't know what a smart folder is. I'll do a google search
 
Also, is there a search term in Spotlight like "OR"? "+" seems to work for "and," but hat about "or"?
 
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