Rating: 4 

Version tested:  1.1

Description: Filesort is a little program that will look at files within a directory and ’sort’ them (i.e. send them to the appropriate directory) based on user-defined rules. These rules can be either file-name rules, file-age rules, or file-size rules.

For example, you could set Filesort to ‘observe’ a folder and move all mp3’s within it to a specific directory, or all files older than 30 days into a specific folder, or all files over 100 megs into their own folder. Unfortunately, you cannot combine rule types, so for example you cannot send all avi video files that are larger than 100 megs into a directory of their own.

This software is probably most useful to either somebody, like me, who downloads so much software every day that it gets pretty confusing to manage, somebody who does a lot of p2p downloading, or somebody who works with a lot of files or data that belong to different projects and needs a way to keep the files organized.

Some features of Filesort worth noting:

• Rules are set in order; you’ll have to think about the logic of these such that they’ll actually do what you want. Rules look like this (as examples):
  - Move *.mp3 to C:\MP3
  - Move files that are 30 or more days old to C:\30DaysOld

• You can set  Filesort to look at a folder recursively. This is very useful, especially with file-age rules, as the program will keep moving the files to the appropriate directory as time goes by.
  For example, if Filesort is looking at, say, c:\downloads\, and executing a sequence of age-rules, a file in c:\downloads\7daysold\ will be moved to c:\downloads\14daysold\ after 14 days pass since it is created.

• Filesort can be minimized to the tray and perform its sort function at a user-defined time interval.

• Filesort does not need to be installed and can be run from a USB device.

• You need Microsoft .net framework installed for the program to run.

Filesort was created by a programmer to do a specific thing based on what he needed at the time, therefore it is rather simple and no-frills, and I doubt that it will become much more sophisticated. I also found some strange errors when running Filesort non-recursively, where the program would move a file to the correct folder, then apparently look for it once again (and not find it), and display an error message.

I am using Filesort mainly to sort my files based on the number of days since I downloaded them, and so far its doing a respectable job. An interesting program overall.

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