Sorting by size in lightroom

Question

From Lightroom's first beta version I have been disappointed that there is no way to sort in the library module by image file size. Sorting by size is so common in computer programs. The mac operating system windows have had this option as far back as I can remember. I really miss it in organizing my files in Lightroom. I am presently using Lightroom 2.1.
Please add this to the next update.
Thanks.
Jim Klebau

Answer 1

I strongly support Simon Tindemans request
Simon Tindemans, "Allow import of and basic operations on non-image files (AVI, etc)" #15, 29 Jan 2009 11:41 pm (and I am sure from the others too, expressed or just wished for) that unsupported files should appear in the Grid mode with some kind of generic icon, and clicking on it would trigger the editing in the appropriate program (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) or allow copying them to some other location. Among 200,000-plus photos, still waiting in my server to be imported into LR and join those 100,000 already there - the legacy of my 7 years of the digital photography, there are the thousands of CMYK and PSD files, and digging them out by reading the printed list and then typing one by one the file names into the search field of browser's find feature, instead of just selecting the whole lot in the Grid module and opening them in the Photoshop with one click is, well, a stone-age method?
I also strongly support the James Klebau's request for file size sorting (and I add filtering too). Just as Mikael Albrecht, who explains the reasons for this to Wolf Eilers, the latter somehow not recognizing the need for this feature, and many others, I too have imported the thousands of jpg and tiff photos from the pre-LR and pre-RAW shooting era, all of them in the various sizes, from 600x400 pixels to 20x16" exhibition photos, besides the several hundreds of web albums' thumbnails which have crept in by mistake. To find them among the100,000-plus photos in the catalog is darn hard - I believe everyone will agree on this. Every other program, browser or DMA, has it and I was really surprised and disappointed when I realized that LR lacks this so common feature.
Finally I would like to see very much the additional Find and Replace option in the batch file (re)naming Editor. I have my own file naming system which besides the 4-digit file number suffix (usually the original one, sometimes created by sequence) incorporates also the 5-char theme and year prefix code, the location, and the 3-char code of the image type/purpose of the edited image (Exhibition, B&W, press, web...)
I often need to rename the batch of the photos, sometimes because I've goofed and exported the whole series of the photos, forgetting to change the previous file naming settings, but more often as at some latter time and for the various reasons I need to change the part of the file name - some code or the location - in the series of the photos.
When renaming the single file it would be also very helpful if the input field with the original file name would appear in the pop-up window besides the previous renaming setting, so one could simply (re)type in the needed change. In the Filename Template Editor, the only option where the file renaming can be carried out, the original name doesn't appear and the whole file name must be typed in - very cumbersome, time consuming, and error-prone. Perhaps this single file renaming option could appear in the context pop-up menu by right clicking on the image in question, upon which the input window would appear with the original file name already in the input window. Without doubt this would greatly expedite the single file renaming.
Misko