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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Currently I'm using #, but it causes issues with certain applications.

Example:

#Top Folder
Games
Music
New Folder
Pics

Currently using mostly Windows, but trying to transition to Linux, so a solution that works for both would be perfect.

Thanks, Lemmy!

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[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Generally speaking: If you want folders to be on top, do it in your application. You should not prefix folders with "random characters" to make them listed in a specific place.

If you really want to, you could use A Foldername because A is the lowest Unicode point character that is a letter (0x41) You could also use @ (0x40). I've seen @Foldername in the wild a few times. I would not use numbers, because numbers are stupid, you also cannot easily change them if you want to have another folder between two already existing ones.

Some applications might ignore non-letter characters (what is interpreted as a letter, depends on your locale) on sorting, though. So the safest would be A.

this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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