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Join Date: Sep 2005
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is there any way to assign numbers to files in a finder list, like
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etc w/o renaming the files?
I have a large number of PDFs and it would be great if I could sort them that way. any ideas?
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Without renaming them? No. How would the Finder possibly know what order you mentally want them to be in?
With renaming them - Automator.
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Join Date: Nov 2001
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You can type numbers into the Comments section of the Get Info (command-i) window. Then you can sort in the finder by comments.
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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Mac Elite
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Yeah, Peter's right, comments don't work, sorry.
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain
Yeah, Peter's right, comments don't work, sorry.
Why not?
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Originally Posted by monkeybrain
Yeah, Peter's right, comments don't work, sorry.
Peter and you are WRONG. I just tired it and it works as expected.
I used 01, 02, 03, 04 in the Spotlight Comment fields for four files since the Finder has always been kind of dumb when it comes to numbers and sorting. I added the Comments to the list view and clicked to sort it.
If you don't *know*, please don't answer. 
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20" iMac C2D/2.4GHz 3GB RAM 10.6.8 (10H549)
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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Hey I do know, I was the first one to offer that suggestion. But my brief experiment didn't seem to work, that's all (because it seems the Finder will sort items without a comment before those with a comment, even if it is just a number).
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I never said it wouldn't work did i
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