[tridentinecanon]

I want to arrange items by name in Finder, but I do not want items that start with "The" or "A" to be arranged alphabetically with the t's and a's respectively, if that makes any sense.

iTunes does this by default, of course. Is it possible to make Finder behave this way?

[TETENAL]

No.

[Hal Itosis]

Haven't seen that one happen (yet).
It would need to be added by Apple, or be a really slick haxie.

As far as "if that makes any sense" goes, do you really want opinions?

[turtle777]

Then don't call your files like that.

I'm sure it's not too hard to program Automator to delete all the "The" and "A"'s from the file names.

Or use "A Better Finder Renamer".

-t