Sorting by two part extension

Very frequently I need to sort a large number of files by extension, however they possess a compound two part extension.


I have tried sorting by descriptions, types and extensions and I can't get anything to work.
Eventually I end up using my bulk renaming software so sort them, but that is cumbersome.

Basically what I need to figure out is how to sort on the last six characters (seven counting the period/dot)

This is fairly important to me, as I need to do it so often, but alas, I turn to the professionals for help, as I can't figure it out.

/bill

Unless what comes before the extensions always has the same number of letters, I think the only way to do that is to write a C++ VFS plugin which made Opus treat those double-extensions as a single extension instead of .twm files. (Like the archives plugin does for e.g. .tar.gz files.) That would be a large undertaking, though.

The bulk-renaming built into Opus could turn the middle dot into, say, an underscore so that the extensions were like .doc_twm and could then be sorted, if that's any use.

Thanks leo,

I tried creating a type description so that I could sort by those, but the description field doesn't in the lister doesn't get occupied.


I'm bummed... there must be an easier way.

And yes, it is always three characters / dot / three characters

Sheesh! I can't even type anymore :blush:

/bill

I mean the part before both extensions.

So I guess I've finally found something that dopus incapable of doing ?
Will there ever be this functionality ?
What about sorting the descriptions? Is the lister field 'description' different from the file type description?
There must be a solution.
What we need is a regex sorting & filter solution like .*{7}$

Sorting descriptions works fine, but that's not what you want here.

The Type field is the one which displays file type names. You can sort by that.

(I'm not sure that types with multiple extensions work, though. Maybe they do, but if you get something else in the Type column then that's probably why.)

Nothing works.
I'm bummed out.
It should be simple, but alas....

In the next update we'll add an option that will let you configure a list of multi-part file extensions for purposes of display/sorting.

You guys are the Best!!!