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When viewing a list of files in Windows 7 Explorer, how do I sort by "order in the directory"? One might also call this the order the files were copied into the folder, or perhaps the "no sort" order.

(I am curious because my car audio player plays files off a USB drive in this "unsorted" order.)

Patrick Szalapski
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If you copied a file into a directory, the "date accessed" and "date created" reflect when the copy occurred. You can simply add those columns to the file explorer and sort by them.

If you simply moved (dragged and dropped) the files to their location, there is no column to indicate when that occurred.

n00b
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You can try option like "Date Created" if you want to check them in order you copied the directory. For this right click in the explorer and now choose "Sort by>More.." now a popup will appear and then find the option by scroll down.

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Now mark the option you want to add in the right click menu and click OK. Now you can see that option in right click context menu under sub-menu of "Sort by".

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