Is there a setting to ignore “the*” in the sortning of files in dolphin?
So this:
Aaron
Charlie
The.Baron
The.Guy
The.Zniper
Xavier
Zzzzzorro
Becomes this:
Aaron
The.Baron
Charlie
The Guy
Xavier
The.Zniper
Zzzzzorro
And If I select Aaron and press Z it jumps to The.Zniper and not Zzzzzorro.
Is there a setting for this? Or another way of accomplishing this?
instead of type-ahead ‘Z’ you can filter with ‘/ Z’.
That was a really great function! Thanks!
Aha, but I won’t get paid unless you…
Mark it 
The sorting option isn’t available I take it?
Not to skip examples like ‘The’ - but direct filtering gets them all 
It is actually possible, but honestly way too complicated.
Alright. Thanks.
The / will probably solve 60-75% of my troubles regarding this so I’ll give you the solve and close it : )
this does not solve the problem for me tho.
filtering is good for finding something but terrible for sorting.
if The.Zniper is a folder with things in it that do not contain a 'z`, then they are invisible in filter view, so you need to turn it off to see them.
and if you turn off the filter view then you lose lock on your find result and have to scroll down to where you highlighted the folder The.Zniper
oh, you forgot to select the folder from the filter view in order to find it in the scroll?
too bad, now you have to start all over again.
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seems like there is room for improvement.
ether improve the filter logic so that when you find something and then turn the filter off so you can see everything again, it should keep the focus on the find result automatically.
or
provide additional sorting options like most music players do for typical prefixes like the * , an *, or a *
I do not think a file manager should sort by what is basically a media paradigm. You really should use an application that’s made specifically to manage your music / books / movies / tv series / whatever else this helps with, because these tools also know a lot more about the contents of your media, mainly the language.
Once dolphin adds special handling for “the”, someone will show up demanding it also work for “le” or “la”, or “der”, “die”, “das”, and so on, and suddenly the sort order will stop making any sense because all of these rules will start tripping over each other
One separate file manager per file type.
Interesting concept. Sounds exhausting to me, and extremely limiting.
A special application for commonly used file types sure thing, on the side. It doesn’t replace a file manager.
The exact rules wouldn’t really need to be hardcoded like the, le, der; a regex field would suffice and each user decide what to ignore.
E.g, how to get that sorting with ls (or printf ‘%s\n’ *):
ls -1 | awk ‘{key=$0; sub(/^The[ .]/, “”, key); print key “\t” $0}’ | sort -f | cut -f2-
this is a valid point and pushes me to want the other more intuitive solution that once i’ve found something using the filter, i should be able to turn the filter off and still see what i’ve found on the screen.
it’s not as quick as typing the first letter or two but it would at least result in the same ability to locate what you want and begin working with it.
Sounds like you’re trying to sort media files?
Personally I just put ‘A’ and ‘The’ at the end of the file name
i.e Guy, The (year) or Body Of Blood, A (year)
Most media servers pick up the correct title still when scanning.
That requires editing all of the file names in a system that could have thousands of them in hundreds of folders on several separate disks.
But then you might just download another 100 files, you sit there renaming them all before doing anything else? That can also prove tricky, if they’re still seeding in qbittorrent, for example…
To be honest, though, when using ‘type ahead’ it’s quite possible to continue past the first word when sorting filenames.
But if you’re searching ‘terminator’ and can’t remember if it’s ‘the terminator’ or ‘a terminator’ then just filtering ‘termin’ would isolate that.
Most of the time I have to manually update the filename and folder anyway to get it into the format that media servers prefer, so I don’t think it adds any extra overhead. But yes, if you haven’t already done it and have a lot of files like it then it will probably take a long time to do. There are a few media manager apps out there which you can specify parameters and formatting, but I find most a bit cumbersome and take longer than just quickly updating the file/directory.
If you’re downloading via bittorrent, the apps also have the ability to rename the directories (or add a directory) before downloading. A lot of torrents have weird naming too so you’ll invariably want to update the filenames anyway.
That’s weird - I use Plex, and very rarely have to deal with a Mismatch - and that’s somethign that would never be as trivial as ‘Saint, The’ needed instead of ‘Tha Saint’.
What I meant was sometimes a torrent will have a stupid name like “ttfodj 1960 realtorr 1encoded” instead of simply “The Two Faces Of Dr Jeckyll (1960)” as it should be. I’m going to have to change the name anyway so adding " , The" to the end instead of the filename instead of the start isn’t going to be any extra work. Besides, a lot of my file naming I use for media contains extra info to help me categorise it (like genres, versions etc). So once again, I’m manually updating the filename anyway for each media set.
And as I said previously, media servers don’t really care whether you have “Saint, The’ or ‘The Saint”. But when it comes to sorting through your files with a file manager having “Saint, The” makes it much easier than trying to work out how to filter certain files.
Personally I just put ‘A’ and ‘The’ at the end of the file name
I’ve thought about that, but it’s kinda crass way of doing it. All in all, what I’d like to avoid (naming files to make better sorting, rather than the correct name of its content that is).
That’s another feature that would be nice.
If the matches stop when typing after selecting a file/folder it jumps to closest match anywhere in any filename instead of just beginning.
Bad.txt
The-Badger.txt
Typing “bad” will select Bad.txt, if you continue with a “g” it would jump to The-Badger.txt instead of staying on Bad.txt.
Dolphin already does that from the search function
Actually, I should have explained it a little better. I only name the directories for media this way, not the filenames (they stay the same). Unfortunately most file mangers can’t distinguish between A, The, I (to my knowledge) and only have a few ways of sorting…not only in Linux but Windows and Mac too. The real issue comes when you want to play audio files in your car and it REALLY doesn’t sort for the most part. That’s why I choose to name directories the way I do:
Unfortunately KRename can’t rename directories anymore. The only ones that can is CoreRenamer and Thunars Bulky Renamer (from memory) . Core Renamer can be buggy too (crashing, weird renaming results). The only app I know that works 100% is Bulk Rename Utility but is Windows only (one app I really miss from Windows days).
Search function yes. I’m talking about…“jump to”-function(?) “direct-lookup”-function(?) (don’t know what to call it, but what I explained above).