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Inspiring
October 9, 2012
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P: Sort folders in ascending or descending order

  • October 9, 2012
  • 36 replies
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Would like to see ability to sort folders in ascending or descending order just like the images.

36 replies

adamp59782269
Participant
January 20, 2021

I am using Lightroom Classic 10.1 on a Mac. This is probably an easy question, but can the folder list on the left be changed to show folders in Descending Order? I sort my photos in 12 folders per year (YYYY / YYYY-MM) . Omitting many folders for brevity, my hierarchy is currently displayed as

  • Master Photo Storage
    • 2002
    • 2003
    • ....[etc]...
    • 2019
      • 2019-01
      • 2019-02
      • 2019-12
    • 2020
      • 2020-10
      • 2020-11
      • 2020-12

I would like it to display as

  • Master Photo Storage
    • 2020
      • 2020-12
      • 2020-11
      • 2020-10
    • 2019
      • 2019-12
      • ....etc
Inspiring
July 16, 2020
LR sucks!.....im writing a new app like LR with all the features we need, and it will be FREEWARE!
Inspiring
June 10, 2020
I find this a problem also but have created folders for each decade with individual years inside them. This reduces the amount of scrolling needed to get to recent dates.
Inspiring
March 2, 2020
Is there a workaround to this problem? How do others manage their photos? I was forced to migrate from Picasa to Lightroom 6 stand alone (last available version) and my images go back decades so any time I want to access recent images I am forced to scroll for an extremely long way to find them as all the folders are by date as I had them in Picasa and the newest dates were at the top.  Now it is very painful. Is there a better workflow in Lightroom to access newer folders first in navigator?
Inspiring
February 12, 2020
Lightroom Classic 9.1 Folder sort in reverse order

Could this be implemented for Lightroom Classic version 20 - my future grandson would be happy when he will start with Lightroom in the year 2035

adamDr
Known Participant
September 25, 2019
BTW, on your merged topic there was a question about which version of Lightroom this applies to. I can also add that it applies to Lightroom CC Desktop version as well (and to web version too btw). Not just the Classic.
Inspiring
September 25, 2019
I asked for this 7 years ago as you can see it was ignored. Adobe only really uses ideas from professional photographers who Adobe considers to be industry influencers.
Participant
September 25, 2019


Would this community support request to enhance LR folder view to be sorted in descending order? I believe, that quite common practice to organize folders is to use the date (e.g. YYYYmm...) in the begining of folder name. The only problem with it, LR puts the latest folders at the end of the list (since it always sorts in ascending order) and you have to scroll down the whole list to get there.

Adobe, please, implement that small, but useful feature!

Thanks
Arnold-Norway
Known Participant
August 1, 2018
Yes, with Collection, but Smart Collections are updated as you import, depending on keywords and other rules in your Smart Collections and photographs. I love Smart Collections. Hope we get the Folders sort order.
RegardsArnold Hoddevik