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Character to Put Folder at the Bottom

asked on December 5, 2017

I know an underscore ("_") or apostrophe ("*) at the beginning of a folder/document name will bring it to the top of a list: what symbols will put it at the bottom?

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replied on December 5, 2017

Its sorted in alphabetical order. As far as I know its based on the ASCII value. See full list here.

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replied on December 5, 2017

So short answer to answer your question ~ should do it in theory.

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replied on December 6, 2017

Only way I have found to do it is 'Z - Folder Name'.

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replied on December 6, 2017

There are lots of obscure unicode characters that will do the trick, like "ٴ". They can be confusing for folks to work with, though, and don't always display correctly.

A simpler, but more obtrusive, option would be something like a capital omega ("Ω"), which is part of the ASCII set and can be typed with Alt + 234.

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replied on December 7, 2017 Show version history

I quite like the omega. We need something consistent/standard because we'll be pointing Import Agent to the folder.

 

EDIT: apparently Alt + 234 creates a U symbol in Import Agent... so that doesn't work.

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replied on December 7, 2017

Seems it dosnt completely follow the Unicode list. You can try these

Characters that sort after Z in Finder (in sort-order)

  • ι Greek letter
  • Ι Greek letter, capital version of above character, not an "I")
  • Ω Omega
  • 一 Japanese Character
  • 口 Japanese character
  • 末 Japanese character "End"
  •  (a private use character)

I personally like the idea of using Ιmport folder (it uses the Greek capital I but to the user will look normal)

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replied on December 7, 2017

does it work in import agent (when pointing to that folder?) Because when I tried creating an omega using ALT+234, it gave me a completely different symbol.

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replied on December 7, 2017

Just copy and paste from the post. Its probably the easiest way haha.

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replied on December 7, 2017

it works that way! lol

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replied on December 7, 2017

Sometime simple solutions are best haha.

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