Windows organize folders by size

You can grab it from reputed sites or download it using the link below. If you have files beginning with numbers like 1,2,3, etc. This is how it is looking currently. You will have to enable numeric sorting in Windows 10 because it is not enabled by default. Type gpedit. You should now see the Local Group Policy Editor window with two panes. In the left one, click on Computer Configuration and then double-click on Administrative Templates in the right window pane. You should see a bunch of files here.

Find 'Turn off numerical sorting in File Explorer' here and open it. Select Enabled and click on Apply to save your settings. Getting back to the example I shared above, you can see that the files are now sorted numerically. The file named 22 appears before file named 3 because the first digit 2 is smaller than 3. If it is not working for you, try restarting your system after saving everything.

The numerical sorting order takes the sequence of digit occurrence into consideration. In simpler terms, it arranges the files by following the historical value of the first digit, second digit and so on. But windows 10 classifies any folders larger than 16MB as "unspecified",which is extremely dumb. Because it can only scan files with a file size maximum of 16MB - which is extremely small - still called "huge" I can't sort my files by size and i just get files as "unspecified" being randomly shuffled and i get only a few files that actually fit under 16MB to be properly sorted largest to smallest.

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You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter gcohen6 Start date Sep 7, Joined May 26, Messages 25 Reaction score 1. I want to be able to sort on folder size. Using Windows 10 Home Here's why: I copied all the contents of one folder to another. But, some folders in the destination folder were empty. There are thousands of folders. I want to sort on folder size to see which ones are smaller and then just recopy them.

I want to do this from a window of the folders on the desktop, not in DOS. I know Microsoft calcs the size, because if you hold your mouse over the folder, it gives it to you. I can use WinDirStat to sort on folder size, but I can't use it to copy files. I looked at every possible column choice and thought I had it with Total Size, but that didn't work. Any suggestions? Joined Nov 19, Messages 5, Reaction score 1, I presume you mean in the File manager.

Select all the folders at once, and then select "View" in the top menu. There you have the option to group them, which includes by size. No, that doesn't do it. Here is a picture of what I want to sort. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

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