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Sort files by folder first, then filenames? [message #797763]

Mon, 13 February 2012 21:49

Anthony DePalma

Messages: 4
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

This seemed to be the standard method of sorting files within projects before I upgrade to indigo. Now by default all files and folders are sorted strictly alphabetically which makes it extremely confusing having files mixed around with the folders. Is there any setting to use the old way of sorting by folders first, then files?

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Re: Sort files by folder first, then filenames? [message #797971 is a reply to message #797763]

Tue, 14 February 2012 04:31

Nitin Dahyabhai

Messages: 4063
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

In which View are you seeing this behavior?

Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

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Re: Sort files by folder first, then filenames? [message #798012 is a reply to message #797971]

Tue, 14 February 2012 05:58

Nick Clevery

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Registered: January 2012

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There is a Sort menu when you click on the arrow on the top left of the view, you can select sort by name or sort by type.

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Re: Sort files by folder first, then filenames? [message #798301 is a reply to message #798012]

Tue, 14 February 2012 14:08

Anthony DePalma

Messages: 4
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

This is the standard project explorer view, but I'm not talking about java packages or resources on the classpath. Take the WEB-INF folder for example in a web project, all of my files in the nested /jsp folder are sorted this way but I see no option anywhere to change the sort, only things like Top Level Elements, Package Presentation etc. Where should I be looking exactly?

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