Can I filter a library by file type?
I create some various types of content like newsletters, videos, website work, and I store all the files from each project together, sorted into folders by client and then project name. So you can see that while my pictures library may be a great way to organze my personal photos, I don't put any image files associated with a project into my pictures folder, right?Well I don't really have personal pictures on this machine, so it would still be nice to just see all my picture files from all projects. I figured I might add my 'projects' folder to be one of the folders that gets aggregated into the Pictures library. But when I do, everything from my projects shows up in the Pictures library. How can I set the Pictures 'virtual folder' to only show files of an image type, like only PNG, SVG, GIF, JPG, and stuff like that?I seem to remember that Libraries are based on "Longhorn's" search folders, so how do I make it happen?(I posted this same question to the consumer oriented answers.microsoft.com forums, but I think this is more technical in nature than those forums are for.) Shawn B. Keene
January 9th, 2010 6:32am

Hi, Open the image folder in library, set 'Arrange By: Type' in the upper-right corner to check the result.
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January 11th, 2010 1:11pm

Hi,It seems that you opened the thread shortly after this one. In that thread you can arrange by type but encounter other issue. At this point, I would like to know if you are able to filter the library by file type.As for as I know, the picture library does not have the option to "Arrange by: type" but the Videos library does. So you can copy all the pictures from our projects folder and put them to the Videos library togeter and use the "Arrange by: type" to filter.
January 14th, 2010 7:52am

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