# Sort

## Description

A very handy tool to sort your entire After Effects project files

## Setup

1. Open the Sort tool interface
2. Specify all of the presets for the resulting folder structure
3. (optional) save the presets for quick application in the future

{% hint style="info" %}
Any of the folder names below can contain a slash ("/") character to tell Sort to create nested folders!
{% endhint %}

## Options

**Compositions**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Composition items

**Audio**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Audio items

**Video**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Video items

**Images**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Image items

**Old**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the folders that no longer have items contained in them

**AI & PSD**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Illustrator and Photoshop items

**Nulls & Solids**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the Null and Solid layers

**Missing**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the missing source items

**Remove old Folders**\
Toggle on to remove folders that no longer have items contained in them

**Remove Unused**\
Removes unused footage

**Ignored Files/Folders**\
Name of the resulting folder containing all of the missing source items

**Sort only selected folder**\
Toggle on to only sort the files in the currently selected project folder


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