Comment 4 for bug 13319

Nautilus 2.32.2.1

All those years ago, Vincent was absolutely correct.
Over 6 years later...............6 years, and still the same horrendous problem exists.

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm not sure that's useful to add such options.

Yes it is...... my goodness....... Yes it is!

It's not just useful ....... It's an utter necessity.

I read with horror, the response made by Seb Bacher:

"I'm sure that some people have some files sorted in a best way with the type rather than the extension."

I just don't see how this statement can be true.
One can't rename files, or change extensions at whim, so how can anybody have them sorted in the best way, by using type??

It just doesn't work:

/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/70603113.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/A9OL4VF8.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ADDR64C2.PM!
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ADDR64C2.PMR
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ALLADDS.PM!
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/ALLADDS.PMR
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/B1EBOV2P.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/B1R3F2HD.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BEGJ8868.PMO
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BUSINESS.PM!
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/BUSINESS.PMR
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/DESKTOP.PM0
/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN/EOWM12D2.PMO

In the above example, the directory contains many hundreds of files, and it is mission critical that I have them grouped together, for staged pasting into a new folder.
It was a nightmare.... here's what i had to do:

/home/mark/Temp data/ADMIN
/home/mark/Temp data/CNM
/home/mark/Temp data/pmi
/home/mark/Temp data/PMM
/home/mark/Temp data/singles

I created dirs named by extension, then trolled thru admin, cutting and pasting files into appropriate dirs - just to sort them!

In 2011 i'm having to figure out some micky mouse way of sorting files, when in windows explorer, it would have been ***** a single mouse click *****.

In fact, to be fair.... what i should have done..... was: reboot to win7, and do the whole job using win explorer.