Sorting by "Size": files and folders are displayed mixed

[dirki-boy]

When I sort the items by "Date" it seems as if they always are shown separately (folders at the bottom or top, files vice versa), when I sort by size the folders are mixed. Is there a way I could display them separately also?

Is it absolutely sure, that sorting by "Date" sorts the files and folders separately, so that, when I mark all equal files on one panel to them I only will delete files and not folders may be containing none equal files?

Edit: Oh, no, it is not, I just looked through the files, folders on the panel they are sorted by "Date", they are also mixed, respectively I found at least single folders among the files as far as I searched for them. So if I had deleted the (equal) files by marking the first file to the last file I would have deleted at least on folder not intendedly.

I am wondering how many folders I have deleted accidentally...

Is there a way to delete the equal files only, not the folders? And is there a way to control it, so how can I make FFS an interaction that shows in the next step I will delete files only or files AND folders or something like that? Or is there a way to make sure not to delete folders, but to delete (equal) files only?

This post is referring to another post I wrote, but I cannot find it at the moment.

[Zenju]

> Is it absolutely sure, that sorting by "Date" sorts the files and folders separately

It is, but only for the side you sorted.

[dirki-boy]

> Is it absolutely sure, that sorting by "Date" sorts the files and folders separately

It is, but only for the side you sorted.

Many thanks, Zenju.

But why are the items not separated on my system neither sorted by size nor by date?

<<<but only for the side you sorted.
That doesn't seem to matter on my system, when I click date or size on the other panel the files and folders stay mixed. Why could it be like this?

[Zenju]

Can you show a screenshot of this and also explain what is not behaving as expected?

[dirki-boy]

Yes, I will do, where can I find your e-mail address / PM?

[Zenju]

It's becoming clear from your screenshots, that the items that are intermixed with files are not folders, but Windows shell link (*.lnk) files.

[dirki-boy]

So that means, folders and files are not mixed and each single folder icon here shows a link.

And sorting by "Date" and "Size" definitely means files and folders are not intermixed, but folders are at the top, files at the bottom or vice versa. And that means - sorry for repeating - when I mark all the files from the first file at the top to the last file at the bottom (when sorting by "Date" or "Size") to delete them, it is impossible, that there is a folder among these files.

So these links are displayed differently (just as folder icons) in FFS than in other programs / on Windows, sorry, I didn't notice that.

So I never had deleted a folder accidentally obviously in this case, very good to know.

Sorry for my complete misunderstanding about these links and bothering you the whole time with the same theme and many thanks for your help.

[Zenju]

> sorting by "Date" and "Size" definitely means files and folders are not intermixed, but folders are at the top

Yes, this is the actual sorting rule for "date" and "time".

> So these links are displayed differently

Yes, Windows Explorer has special handling for .lnk files and adds an arrow as overlay icon. FFS should try to reproduce this behavior to avoid such confusion in the future. I'll add this as an open point.

[dirki-boy]

That would be great.

Many thanks again, glad not to have lost files.