Option to set ALL folders to a desired sorting (last edited, A-Z, ...)

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Option to set ALL folders to a desired sorting (last edited, A-Z, ...) #21060

Open Rowin63 opened 1 week ago

Rowin63 commented 1 week ago

After a fresh install and bring back all my folders (50+) into osmand, ALL folders are set to "last edited" again, and this sorting is really annoying. So now I have to go through every single folder and set it to "A-Z" again.

A possibility to set ALL folders to a certain sorting option would be great! Also when creating or renaming a folder its standard sorting is always this annoying "last edited". Let the user set a standard setting please, thanks!

vshcherb commented 1 week ago

There is an option to change recursively probably you don't need 50 top level track folders?

Rowin63 commented 1 week ago

There is an option to change recursively probably you don't need 50 top level track folders?

I see, there is an option "Unterordner sortieren" ("sorting subfolders") in my places´ 3dots. I did not expect this option sorting the tracks, if it is named "sorting subfolders" ;-)

My tracks are sorted by country_year, source (different sources per country) and other options. And after travelling already for some years, 50 folders is not really much.

But you´re right, it´s a lot of folders and this was my intention for creating various sub-folders inside a country folder. What unfortunately does not really work properly, as we know by now ;-)

sonora commented 1 week ago

I have decided to put all my own tracks in one single top folder, which makes things like this easier...

Rowin63 commented 1 week ago

Yes, maybe, but I don't want to leave my used "folder creating system" because "last edited" is the standard sorting type...

sonora commented 6 days ago

Yes, maybe, but I don't want to leave my used "folder creating system" because "last edited" is the standard sorting type...

In fact, for those of us having big libraries of tracks, A-Z is usually the method of choice for sorting them, becasue we would likely automatically use a file name structure fulfilling exactly our needs of structuring and locating them. "Last edited" is probably a comparable small use case, only valid for

recordings. If at all, our standard naming starts all recording with an ISO date so A-Z sorting is equally useful there.
and users creating or modifying tracks by edits. But this may often only happen in certain folders, not across the board.

So in summary, we could maybe derive a suggestion that

"Last edited" should at most only be the default sorting in some folders, perhaps in the system folders "rec" and "import",
while "A-Z" should be the default sorting for all user folders / custom folders?

Rowin63 commented 6 days ago

Thats exactly how I use it. "rec" and "import" are my only folders set to "recently updated". So I can see the latest/newest tracks. Thanks for your opinion!