Sorting tab in "get info"

If you select get info for any particular track there is a tab called sorting. I can not find anything in the help topics about how you can use this. Looking for somebody who uses this and can tell me what I can and can not do with this function?
Thanks for any help and/or advice.
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Yes. iTunes will alphabetize by whatever's in the Sorting field instead of whatever's in the associated field — if the Album field contains "Dark Side of the Moon" and the Album Sort field contains "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes", Dark Side of the Moon will appear with the A's when sorted by Album.
If you want to apply a Sorting field to other tracks with the same data, control-click it and select "Apply sort field..." from the contextual menu that pops up.

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I have the latest Mac Air 13" and I have a Seagate 500MB external hard disk I cant copy or Cut any files on the hard disk and I cant even delete any files. I have the settings as Read and Write in the get info tab. Please help

I have the latest Mac Air 13" and I have a Seagate 500MB external hard disk I cant copy or Cut any files on the hard disk and I cant even delete any files. I have the settings as Read and Write in the get info tab. Please helpand also note that my hard drive was formatted on a Windows 7 Laptop.

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