Auto-Sort Files in Bridge on Startup

Is there a way to have Bridge automatically have files sorted by Filename? Currently every time I launch bridge (on startup of computer) it is set to sort manually. How do I make the default sort by Filename? I have looked and cannot find a way. I am running Bridge CS5 on PC.

I do have bridge to open on startup. I will attempt tp close before shutdown to see what happens then. Thanks for the input.
As Curt states, the settings should be 'sticky' by default. Whenever you quit Bridge (either manual or during shut down system) it should start again with the latest used window and workspace. It also should not matter if you have start on login active are not. While this settings tends to be a bit buggy it should not effect the last used workspace setting.
Maybe you can try a reset preferences for Bridge also, restart Bridge holding down option (Mac) or ctrl (Win) and from the menu choose reset preferences.
If you create a custom workspace you can also include the default sort order and panel location to save to.

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Hi
As you know it, since Windows XP xp2, the explorer sorts the files this way :
1, 002, 03, 000004...
For getting back the "right" alphabetical way, you can change the registry. So did I.
Now in the explorer, I get the files sorted like this :
000004, 002, 03, 1
Well
but in adobe bridge CS4, nothing changes. the files are sorted : 1, 002, 03, 000004...
Is there a way to have the files sorted like in explorer ?
thanks for your replies
(Sorry for my bad english)

Yes it can be done but it's very messy!
The following script should do the job BUT it does require you select Manual sort and move any document first! This makes sure that a hidden file .BridgeSort is created in the folder. This file is re-created into the correct order then a new window is opened and the old window closed. This is because Bridge only reads this file when it opens.
Using ExtendScript Toolkit copy and paste the code into a new window, start Bridge - Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts, click the "Reveal" button. This will open the folder that the script should be placed. Once that has been done close and restart Bridge and accept the new script. You will now have a new menu item "AlphaSort"
#target bridge
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
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file.close();
data = data.split('\n');
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    if(data[a].match(/item/g)) Items.push(data[a]);
app.document.sorts = [{ name:"file-size",type:"dimensions", reverse:false }];
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file.open("w", "TEXT", "????");
}catch(e){alert(e+" - "+e.line);}
$.os.search(/windows/i) != -1 ? file.lineFeed = 'windows' : file.lineFeed = 'macintosh';
file.writeln("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes' ?>");
file.writeln("<dirinfo>");
file.writeln("<files>");
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    file.writeln(Items[s]);
file.writeln("</files>");
file.writeln("</dirinfo>");
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[SOLVED] Auto-sort files in folders

Came across the "Magic Folder" plasmoid on a friend's KDE setup and liked the idea very much, especially for my downloads folder (I tend to download many things and then go through them later to sort away).
I found the "Download Sort" plugin for Firefox, but it doesn't always work and doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (last release 2006).
I also found this shell script on the Ubuntu forums, but it doesn't do what I want.
Does anyone know of a way (or a ready made program) that could do the following:
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I don't know about a ready program, but you can write a simple bash script to do that.
(I think this is very simalar to your ubuntu link, I can't view it).
#!/bin/bash
while read filename; do
echo -n "$filename "
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image/png)
echo "is a png image"
mv -n "$filename" /somewhere/png/
image/*)
echo "is an image"
mv -n "$filename" /somewhere/otherimages/
application/pdf)
echo "is a pdf"
destdir="/somewhere/pdf/$(date +%Y.%m.%d)"
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fi
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esac
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Sorry for any confusion. If you imagine using Bridge simply to select the images you want and highlighting them, nothing more, more nothing less. (because of better thumnail previews). These are now the images I want to perform the Photoshop "load files into Stack" script on. The only way this is possible is to the above mentioned, open hte files run the script and then close the files manually but as I have other files open can be very annoying going through them all. The other way is to write down the files names on a piece of paper and then find these files again through Photoshop/open, but as you can understand this is far too time consuming if you have 15-20 files to open at a time. This is basically because although you can choose the files in Bridge you cannot copy that selection to Photoshop. If this were possible it would also sort out the issue as I would have the correct files selected to run the script directky in Photoshop.
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> I have a good script I've written that I always used to run from Photoshop. The script has a dialog box which asks where to get the files from. Is it possible to select files in bridge and run the script from there? Without rewriting it for Bridge?
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Up until 2 weeks ago I have been copying my NEF files from my CF card via reader, opening Bridge, selecting thumbnail of NEF and opening it in Photoshop CS3. At which point I can process with Camera Raw 4.6.
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The Application I am talking about can be found when you open up a NEF file in Bridge and look at the Metadata tab on the right. Within that is the File Properties tab and the Application Ver. is the 3rd item from the top (after Filename and Document Type).
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