You can also sort by date created. It's not a column in explorer by default
but you can add it.

1. open explorer and open the work in process folder you described.
2. right click on one of the columns (name, date modified, etc...) and
select "more..."
3. click on "Date Created"

That should add the "Date Created" column to explorer and you can now sort
that way.

Jeff



"Imageman" <Images@Clean.New> wrote in message
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> Jeffrey - Thanks for the suggestion, I tried it, but that method still
> mixes up the files I'm working with. I work with thousands of stock
> photos, some coming from suppliers and the web. Each day I dump new images
> into the folder. In my workflow, I always know that my recent downloads
> are at the bottom. In cases when I have modified a file, using the date
> sort method, they would mix with new files in my collection. This is a
> work in process folder - Thanks for your help, IM
>
>
> "Jeffrey S. Sparks" <jssparks@bccinfo.com> wrote in message
> news:381A44E8-79FE-4AFA-86FB-E0474187ED53@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> Why don't you just sort by date modified?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> "theFATboy" <theFATboy@chubs.net> wrote in message
>> news:_aydnWuN1_gIsnnYnZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@giganews.com...[color=darkred]
>>> In XP, when I dropped a file, or files into a folder they would just go
>>> to the bottom of the list of files. This is handy, because you can see
>>> the files you have added recently, and sort them if you want to. In
>>> Vista, the files sort into the list automatically, and I don't see a way
>>> to stop it from sorting. There must be a way? Thanks for your help - FB[/color]
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