# Adding files or folders and sorting
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [March 29, 2022, 9:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849 "2022-03-29T09:35:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 9:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/1 "2022-03-29T09:35:01Z")
If you add files or folders to a file selection that is sorted, the horizontal scroll bar jumps to the left and the sorting is disabled. This results in adding the added selected files to the bottom of the selection. It is something like a reset.
Is this behavior intentional?
I would prefer it if the newly added files were inserted into the appropriate place as part of the currently active sorting, without having to start a sorting again, which was sometimes done ad hoc over several columns.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 9:47am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/2 "2022-03-29T09:47:42Z")
Yes, it's intended.
Sorting automatically can result in lags when adding files (even if it's more performant now) and would be most likely not welcomed by everyone.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2022, 6:49pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/3 "2022-03-29T18:49:21Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> Sorting automatically [...] would be most likely not welcomed by everyone.
Yes
I myself prefer to see new the files added at the bottom. Otherwise it would break my workflow, when I convert edited WAVs to other formats and copy tags from other / older other files to those new / other ones, that I have just loaded up for this purpose
However that opposite behavior could be made optional
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### Author:  [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 8:25am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/4 "2022-03-30T08:25:58Z")
> [@Florian](#):
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> Sorting automatically can result in lags when adding files (even if it's more performant now) and would be most likely not welcomed by everyone.
O.k.
But in this case please change the sorting behavior.
If I have added files or folders and want to sort again, I would like to restore easily my previous sort order.
At the moment, if you add files or folders, the sorting is canceled (no more sorting arrow above the column), but MP3Tag probably keeps the last sort order in mind.
This means that if you want to sort again and click on the relevant column, MP3Tag activates the **opposite** sort order. So you always have to click the sorting column twice in a row to restore the original sorting order.
This wastes time unnecessarily.
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/5 "2022-03-30T11:33:48Z")
> [@poster](#):
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> This means that if you want to sort again and click on the relevant column, MP3Tag activates the **opposite** sort order. So you always have to click the sorting column twice in a row to restore the original sorting order.
> This wastes time unnecessarily.
Yes
For me this also is an annoying waste of time, that I have to endure even a couple of times per day
But this could be confusing for average user- and so the current behavior should be enabled by default, with what you are proposing being an optionable setting
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### Author:  [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2022, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/6 "2022-03-30T12:14:26Z")
Here is a new idea:
How about if selecting, dragging and dropping files to Mp3tag with `CTRL` being pushed would make behave the list in main window as it does now - but with `ALT` or `SHIFT` being pushed simultaneously, it would insert those files automatically with the current sort being applied, thus eliminating the need fore pressing any `Column` even once?
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/7 "2022-04-02T17:40:03Z")
I've now changed the behaviour with [Mp3tag v3.14a](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/455) so that after adding files, the next sort doesn't invert the sort order.
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### Author:  [@Florian](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Florian)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/adding-files-or-folders-and-sorting/56849/9 "2022-04-05T17:39:07Z")