Any way to reliably list ".als" in chronological order?

[fishmonkey]

Finder search sorts by "Date Modified" just fine here.

the next thing i would try is forcing a rebuild of the Spotlight database for your drive.

you could also try an alternative search tool like Find Any File (or any of the other alternatives mentioned at the bottom of that web page):

https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

this would help determine if the issue is with your Finder or Spotlight searches or if it's some strange global issue.

[lincolnkid]

In your case, if you hit "List after Last Opened". do you get a reliable List where all .als files open in the correct chronological order ?

Finder works fine for me for this and other purposes (I listed the exact steps I follow in an earlier reply).

[spanktron]

Finder search sorts by "Date Modified" just fine here.

the next thing i would try is forcing a rebuild of the Spotlight database for your drive.

you could also try an alternative search tool like Find Any File (or any of the other alternatives mentioned at the bottom of that web page):

https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

this would help determine if the issue is with your Finder or Spotlight searches or if it's some strange global issue.

The Findanyfile app works wonderfully and sorts things in the correct chronological order. Thank you for the suggestion.
That means that the issue is with Finder. I will try a reset later.
Thank you my friend

[spanktron]

In your case, if you hit "List after Last Opened". do you get a reliable List where all .als files open in the correct chronological order ?

Finder works fine for me for this and other purposes (I listed the exact steps I follow in an earlier reply).

I installed a File search app and it works as its supposed to. So the problem lies with my Finder. Will need to address this later

Thank you for the feedback

[spanktron]

Ok so I realized that my Finder has some serious issue I cannot find.

The "sort by last opened" or whatever is time related , is all over the place.

I performed a Rebuild of Spotlights Index but it did not solve the issue.

The app "Find Any File" work correctly and shows things in the logical order one would expect.

Thanks for everyone who chipped in to help. It seems its going to be a complicated issue to tackle for me


Cheers

[fishmonkey]

i would try trashing the Finder preferences next. after that you need to either relaunch the Finder, or log out and back in again (or restart the computer)...

[spanktron]

i would try trashing the Finder preferences next. after that you need to either relaunch the Finder, or log out and back in again (or restart the computer)...

I did all of this. I tried whatever suggestions I could find online. One of them being removing the Prefs etc ... Made no difference.

Did Spotlight Re-Indexing , also no difference. I will leave it for now cause it is above my skill level to solve it.

Will have to wait until my "expert" buddy has time. I don't want to go crazy cause of this

[masond339]

Yes, this is how you do it.

YYYY-MM-DD projectname_bpm

ex.

2023-4-11 boop_132

They will all always be in chronological order.