


You can use File Explorer for a variety of tasks. Formally called Favorites in previous versions of Windows, here you will see your most frequently accessed folders and files you created. When you launch File Explorer in Windows 10, you get the Quick access window. To see into your computer’s storage vault, click the File Explorer icon located on your Taskbar or click Start > File Explorer. Since many of you are coming from Windows 7 and skipped Windows 8.x altogether, we thought you’d like to take a look at using File Explorer in Windows 10. Over the years, this essential part of the Windows experience has evolved from its roots as File Manager in early releases, then Windows Explorer, and now called File Explorer, first introduced in Windows 8. might be better to create a new series of folders by year and copy and paste into them as you go.In the case of Windows, it’s File Explorer. cutting and pasting from the search result will remove it from the folder it is in now. from here you can cut and paste them into new folders based on year or do whatever other sorting/organizing you want to do. Now sort by date to get them all in timeline order. then once it is all sorted how you now want it, you can just delete the first set of folders to get rid of them and not have duplicates everywhere might be better to create a new series of folders by year and copy and paste into them as you go.

now you got them all in one list like you want without having to open each folder. the search for *.* which will show every file in all the folders. What i would do is start a search withing file explorer and limit it to the main folder holding all the sub-folders so it includes everything below in the sub-folders. so simply sorting by date does nothing for all the files inside of the folders. Notice that the OP states the files are all in a bunch of folders.
