Sort Order Idea

Without the ability to search for a contact in the contact database, it would be very helpful to at least be able to toggle between sorting by first or last name without having to take a trip to Settings.
I wanted to find a BMW service advisor as I drove up to my local shop today. At first I couldn't remember his name at all, and couldn't do a simple find for BMW to recall his name before walking in to greet him. That's when the absence of a Find capability struck me. But then I remembered that his name was Richard, but I was sorted by last name, so had to go to Settings, Phone, change the Contact Sorting, go back Home, back to Phone, then scroll to my 29 "Richard" entries in my 2,204-person database.
Whew!
I'm looking forward to some things like this being upgraded with Leopard.

You have not mentioned which iPod you are using - and this does make a difference.
I assume it's the iPod Classic, which as you have found, places the Podcasts in reverse order on the iPod so they play in the reverse order (I know - who thought that was a good idea? ) What's worse, if you try playing a Podcast, when it finishes, the next one will play even if you do not want it to!
There are two work-arounds (and if you are not using an iPod Classic, try this to see if it works on your model):
Put the Podcasts into a Playlist (in the order you want them to play) and use that Playlist. You can do this in iTunes and then Sync that Playlist to your iPod, or you can add them to an On-The-Go Playlist on the iPod Classic. Make sure that Shuffle is off, (see next tip).
Alternatively, turn on the Shuffle songs on your iPod. This tip will cause the iPod to stop after each Podcast episode. So you can play the oldest one first, the iPod will stop, and you can then select (and play) the next oldest episode. This works because iTunes sets all Podcasts to Skip when shuffling, so when an episode finishes, there are no other episodes to be played because they are all set to skip. Using this method, you can simply select the one episode you wish to play and the iPod will play only that episode.
Just so that you know/understand; I also use an iPod Touch but on that model of iPod, Podcasts are added to the iPod in the correct order!

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Works fine here for me, even after refreshing.
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance).
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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     Seriously, me forgetting almost every time isn't going to change and, more vexingly, it's even happened when i didn't mean to move anything but fumbled momentarily while in another sort order. I think most people might forget because (in the context of computing) we are conditioned to expect a warning if something we have just created is about to be written over or discarded, and since there is no option to formally save a manual ordering we have just created.
     Also, if this was in the real world, moving a single file would not reshuffle everything on your desk. If i had the option to formally save a manual organization i would NOT forget to do this and would use it, as i've wished for one every time spent a while rearranging files. Knowing how easily all the hours (much less months and years of cumulative work) of organizational work can be accidentally lost makes working within Bridge unpleasantly anxious.
      I'm literally willing to do anything including installing some sketchy 3rd-part scripts (though honestly i have no idea what that means or how to do it). I extentively use and rely heavily upon this function so this is a fairly serious Achille's heel. It's like watching your incredibly important meticulously constructed house of cards collapse with a careless but innocent sigh, or like having the equivelent of a not even charming cat dance across your keyboard during a live concert, etc etc....
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That is a good question, to do this requires two functions and a restart of Bridge all done automagically
Copy and paste the script into ExtendScript Toolkit
This gets installed with Photoshop and can be found:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
MAC: <hard drive>/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities
Start Bridge
PC: Edit - Preferences - Startup Scripts
Mac: Adobe Bridge menu - Preferences - Startup Scripts
At the bottom click the "Reveal Button" this will open the folder where the script should be saved.
Close and restart Bridge.
Accept the new script.
To use:
Tools - Backup Manual Sort
This will backup the hidden manual sort file .BridgeSort to .BridgeSortSave
Tools - Restore Manual Sort
This will copy the .BridgeSortSave back to .BridgeSort and will close and restart Bridge so that the manual sort is restored.
if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {
var backUpManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Backup Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "backupms" );
var RestoreManSort = new MenuElement( "command","Restore Manual Sort", "at the end of Tools" , "restorems" );
backUpManSort.onSelect = function () {
var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
if(fileSave.exists) fileSave.remove();
fileSort.copy(fileSave);
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RestoreManSort.onSelect = function () {
var fileSort = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSort");
var fileSave = new File(app.document.presentationPath +"/.BridgeSortSave");
if(!fileSave.exists){
alert("No backup file exists");
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app.document.sorts = [{ type:"string",name:"document-kind", reverse:false }];
if(fileSort.exists) fileSort.remove();
fileSave.copy(fileSort);
fileSort.hidden=true;
app.document.chooseMenuItem("mondo/command/new");
app.documents[0].close();
app.document.sorts = [{ name:"user",type:"date", reverse:false }];
Hope this works for you.

List of found events changes sort order when pasted from clipboard

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Thanks

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That's helpful for my issues with iPhone, which are yet another variation on what I'm talking about - but in going through the article, I couldn't find anything that pointed to why my "name" column is not sorting properly for the same artist album.
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If the "album by artist" is the primary sort, what does itunes use for the secondary column to sort? This should help me answer the problem.... it sure doesn't look like "name" column is used as 2nd... because it's not sorted!
Message was edited by: AppleJason

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I am on Yosemite and and all the latest updates. The other day my Macbook Pro would not wake so i had to "hard" reboot. I had iPhoto opened when this happened. When i rebooted iPhoto had to repair/rebuild database. NOW, the Order-By-Date is all mixed up. Goes from 2008, 2004, 2009, 2005, 2012, 2006 and so on - any idea's on how to fix thins? The dates are correct on the photo's, but they are all out of order.
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I think this is an embarrassing thought-fail on Apple's part.
After removing good ways of sharing photos from one library to another, people end up having to get older pictures, or pictures loaded into a laptop while traveling, back onto our main Photos libraries though copying (edited) files over the network and re-add them. This create systematic discrepancies in date added and date taken.
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Sorting iPhone photos stored on a netfear readyNAS Duo under windows
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The sort order of photos appearing in Photo Browser while in Mail has been, until recently, showing the most recent photos first.
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I'd like to have the newest photos appear first, as they have for some time.
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Glitchdog wrote:
Thanks Steven,
Ok I was only half wrong so they are in alphabetical order, but not numerical order. In the Mac finder window in list or icon view it sorts automatically in alphabetical and numerical. Question 1: Is there no way to change the sorting order in Premiere?
I'm still living with a few projects that were shot on tape and where the previous video editor auto numbered digitized clips. Question 2: I'm not going to redigitize this project in Premiere, but for another tape based project would I be able to set up this numbering scheme you mention?
The mac finder sorts them correctly due to an update they did to the OS a long time ago that means it recognizes 10 as coming after 9 rather than needing to put 09 for it to work. Most systems don't work that way.
You could always download a simple batch renaming app, I think there's a few around, and just rename them with zeros in front. Would probably take you about ten minutes tops, including downloading the app.
As for sorting them within Premiere, in list mode you just click the header of the column you want to sort by. But if you're sorting by name it will display them in the order they're currently in, because that is technically correct.

Sort order in filter box (NAVPANEL)

Dear experts,
in BEx 7.0 it seems the free characteristics in the navigation pane are sorted ascending according to the text.
I have found an option for changing the sort order in the workbook (design mode -> filter/navigation pane -> properties -> dimensions -> change order).
We would however like to generally influence the sort order and select it in dependency of the order in the query designer or the technical names/text of the characteristics,...
Any ideas on how to accomplish our endeavour?
Kind regards,
Jeanette

Hi Jeanette,
For some reason this 5 year old question has appeared on the first page of BEx discussions. The only way to influence this sort order is to change the name of the Char.
Regards,
Michael

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I've got a very easy question, but didn't found a solution. How can I change sort order in finder in Snow Leopard to bring the folders to the top?
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