Set downloads folder to group by date

[aayushyap89]

What's the Problem?

Till now i was using the default grouping which is nothing but I just found out that you can group by date created/modified which is so useful and would really be nice to make it default like in regular file explorer for the downloads folder.

Solution/Idea

Just make group by date modified default.

Alternatives

Just make group by date modified default.

Priorities

No response

Files Version

v2.0.28.0

Windows Version

Windows 11 21H2 22000.282

Additional comment

No response

[gerben2934]

Can I work on this?

[yaira2]

Can I work on this?

@gerben2934 absolutely, thank you for asking 🙂

[ssm498]

I am going to give this a shot! I am new to open source and want to get my feet wet.

[ssm498]

I managed to mess around in FolderSettingsViewModel.cs and add DirectorySortOption = SortOption.DateModified in the 'FromCompositeValue' function, but this had some 'side effects'. Mainly that the default for the whole program was set to DateModified, and not just the Downloads folder. I wanted to ask if anyone could let me know if this is the correct folder to mess with. I tried going into other functions in this folder to set DirectorySortOptions correctly, but nothing seemed to be working. Maybe I am trying to find a script that gets called whenever a new folder is accessed, but I am not sure where that is. Could someone point me in the right direction?

[yaira2]

@ssm498 did you look in ItemViewModel? I think the actual code for sorting items is in this file.

[ssm498]

@yaichenbaum Wow... that was really good advice! I am legit surprised It worked. Now if it was the correct way of working that is TBD lol.

[ssm498]

Ill clean up my debugging comments and send in a PR

[yaira2]

@ssm498 do you still have these changes?