Can you guide me how to use "sort directory by date"?

[Max-Enrik]

I need to sort directories by the date created. It would be nice to guide me so I can do it.

[CogentRedTester]

Download the script here: #82 (comment)

Change the .mtime parts of the script to be .ctime.

Place the file into the ~~/script-modules/file-browser-addons/ folder as csorting.lua.

Make sure that addons are enabled in file-browser.

Run mpv, open file-browser and move to a directory. Press ^ and directories will be sorted by creation date. Press ^ again and they will go back to alphabetical order. To make date sorting enabled by default change local do_sorting = false near the top of the script to local do_sorting = true.

If things still do not work then run mpv with mpv --log-file=log.txt --msg-level=file_browser='debug', attempt to do these steps, then upload the log file.

[tyf2018]

@CogentRedTester After following the instructions, nothing happened. Can you please take a look? This is the log file.
log.txt

Best regards.

[CogentRedTester]

It looks like your shell is including the ' in the debug:

[   0.025][v][cplayer] Setting option 'msg-level' = 'file_browser='debug'' (flags = 8)
[   0.025][e][cplayer] Invalid message level ''debug''
[   0.025][e][cplayer] Error parsing option msg-level (option parameter could not be parsed)
[   0.025][f][cplayer] Setting commandline option --msg-level=file_browser='debug' failed.
[   0.025][i][cplayer] Exiting... (Fatal error)

You need to pass debug without the quotes to mpv, maybe mpv --log-file=log.txt --msg-level=file_browser=debug would work?

[hunkyburrito]

The recent cache redesign (dd42418) broke the sorting add-on (confirmed with a git bisect). It seems like the list is no longer getting sorted because it's re-using the cached views.

Log:

[file_browser] imported parser sort-files from sort-files.lua
[file_browser] imported parser find from find.lua
[file_browser] registering directory alias ^dvd://.* /dev/dvd
[file_browser] registering directory alias ^bd://.* /dev/bd
[file_browser] registering directory alias ^cdda://.* /dev/cdrom
[file_browser] jumping to current directory
[file_browser] opening directory: /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] scanning files in "/home/hunky/.config/mpv/"
[file_browser] finding parser for "/home/hunky/.config/mpv/"
[file_browser] attempting parser: home-label
[file_browser] finding parser for "/home/hunky/.config/mpv/"
[file_browser] attempting parser: sort-files
[file_browser] attempting parser: ls
[file_browser] Starting subprocess: [ls, -1, -p, -A, -N, --zero, /home/hunky/.config/mpv/]
[file_browser] list returned from: ls
[file_browser] list returned from: home-label
[file_browser] Received custom keybind ^
[file_browser] opening directory: /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] found directory in cache
[file_browser] applying cache for /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] setting directory to /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] setting directory_label to ~/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] setting list to table: 0x76c4740ca990
[file_browser] setting selected to 1
[file_browser] setting selection to table: 0x76c4740cadc8
[file_browser] setting parser to table: 0x76c47410b638
[file_browser] setting empty_text to empty directory
[file_browser] setting co to thread: 0x76c4740ca8d8
[file_browser] Received custom keybind ^
[file_browser] opening directory: /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] found directory in cache
[file_browser] applying cache for /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] setting directory to /home/hunky/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] setting directory_label to ~/.config/mpv/
[file_browser] setting list to table: 0x76c4740ca990
[file_browser] setting selected to 1
[file_browser] setting selection to table: 0x76c4740cadc8
[file_browser] setting parser to table: 0x76c47410b638
[file_browser] setting empty_text to empty directory
[file_browser] setting co to thread: 0x76c4740ca8d8

Edit: Fixed it by adding fb.clear_cache() above fb.rescan().

[CogentRedTester]

Should be fixed by now.