Is there a Mac app that can do the same as DriveSort does for Windows?

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Is there a Mac app that can do the same as DriveSort does for Windows?

I am considering moving from Windows to Mac, but first, I need to make sure that I can still do all I need to do in the Mac world as I do with Windows today.

One question, I can't seem to answer is a silly one, but important to me.

I keep my music in my car on a flash drive with 700+ songs on it. However, since the flash drive is formated in FAT, it sorts the music by the order the computer decided to save them in.

To fix the order, I use DriveSort (http://www.anerty.net/software/file/DriveSort.php) but it only runs in Windows.

Is there a Mac application that does the same? I don't care if it is free or not.

Thanks.

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Feb 4, 2013 8:42 AM

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Feb 4, 2013 1:02 PM in response to mac427

Google, "drivesort mac"

Lots of info.

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Feb 4, 2013 1:36 PM in response to sig

I have done that before I posted. The results seem to bring in Windows solutions.

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Feb 4, 2013 1:45 PM in response to mac427

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderAttributes/index.html wont help?

http://mac.appstorm.net/how-to/productivity-how-to/how-to-automatically-sort-and -sift-files-with-hazel/

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Feb 4, 2013 2:01 PM in response to sig

http://www.publicspace.net/ABetterFinderAttributes/index.html may work, but does not seem to be made for that specific reason.

Has anyone used this to sort a flash drive based on file name?

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Feb 4, 2013 2:47 PM in response to mac427

On the Mac you can have it sort by name alphabetically or numerically. Is that what you want?

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Feb 4, 2013 6:46 PM in response to sig

It's not a question of how you can sort in the Mac. It's a matter of how it writes files to a FAT based flash drive. The cars stereo will sort the flash drive by the order the files were written in and not by any order the OS has sorted it. This is the same in Windows and Mac, so a utility to "sort" the flash drive. DriveSort does this perfectly, but they don't have a Mac version. I'm looking for a Mac version of this type of software. Surely someone in the Mac world must have run into this flash drive problem and found a fix......

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Feb 5, 2013 11:09 AM in response to mac427

Anyone?

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Jul 27, 2014 12:21 PM in response to mac427

hi mac427, got same problem brought me here 😝, already found the answer? try this http://www.luisrios.eti.br/public/en_us/projects/yafs/

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