Introduction

FatDriveSorter helps you actually sort files on your FAT drives

Why does this exist?

FAT drives store files using a raw sort order. It’s not alphabetical, most recent, etc. It’s a purely technical sort order which the user can’t enforce easily.

Some simple devices, such as MP3 players or hand-held consoles, display files without sorting. This leads to a surprising sort order for the user. FatDriveSorter uses technical tricks to enforce a better sort order.

Features

Enforce raw file order on your FAT drives (FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and exFAT)
See the current raw file order
Customize the sort order
Only sort a specific directory

Installation

Download the latest release

Alternatively, you can use homebrew:

Homebrew 2.7 and above	Homebrew 2.5 and 2.6	Homebrew 2.4 and below
`brew install --cask fat-drive-sorter`	`brew install fat-drive-sorter`	`brew cask install fat-drive-sorter`

Compatibility

macOS version: from 10.12 to latest
Apple Silicon: yes, FatDriveSorter is universal

Localization

FatDriveSorter is available in: English

Contribute your own language easily!

Privacy and respecting the user

FatDriveSorter doesn’t send or receive any data without explicit user consent. It may ask the user to send a crash report after a crash for example, but it will never spy on the user.
FatDriveSorter tries to use as few resources as it can: CPU, memory, disk, etc. All images are compressed, FatDriveSorter is optimized to be as light as possible on the user resources.

Using the embedded fatsort CLI

FatDriveSorter includes a built of fatsort. It is located in the .app bundle, at FatDriveSorter.app/Contents/MacOS/fatsort. It can be called from the Terminal to do advanced sorting. You can call fatsort -h for to see the options.

License

FatDriveSorter is under the GPL-3.0 license.