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DesmosCatGhost

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Registered: 2025-06-16

Posts: 1

looking for a file manager that lets you arrange items manually.

as the title says I want to arrange files in folders manually.

By 'arrange files manually' I mean either have the ability to drag and drop them around the folder as you can in the desktop or be able to define a custom sort order that the files appear in.
for example if I had the files a  b   c    d    e    f   I might want them to be displayed as   e   d   f   b   a   c

By 'file manager' I mean the GUI thing that I use if I want to look at my file system e.g. Dolphin

Things that other posts have sudgested that kind of work:
1) rename all files with a number at  the start (in the above example I would rename it to 1e    2d    3f   4b   5a   6c)
the problems with this are that: it looks ugly, it makes navigating in the terminal harder, it is reasonably difficult to change at a later date

2) make sure to create the files in the correct order then sort by date created
the problem being that trying to change the order or add in a file at a later date is hard

3) just use the desktop for everything
the problem is  that I then cannot use nested folders and the desktop will look cluttered

dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 527

Re: looking for a file manager that lets you arrange items manually.

Think about this: file names and dates are stored as metadata in directory entries at filesystem level. Where should information about your custom order be stored?