It's really easy to sort your titles in a bunch of different ways including the way you want.

On the very top of the screen go to "Collection" > "Sort By" > "Purchase Date".

So you want to have for every new DVD you add the collection number 1? 

You can just do this manual in the personalize section of a profile.

But if you would tell us the reason why you want this, perhaps there is anther way which helps your problem.

I'm not sure exactly what you need but try my first suggestion again but try one of these to see if does what you need:

On the very top of the screen go to "Collection" > "Sort By" > "Purchase Date" > "Ascending"

or

"Collection" > "Sort By" > "Purchase Date" > "Descending"

Or, maybe you need to use the "Reassign Collection Numbers" section. This allows you to change the numbers.

Ok when i say i want every new dvd to be assigned number 1, i mean i want every other dvd already in the list to move down the list 1 position after the new dvd has been added. I tried changing the purchase dates so that they desend but that didnt work.

There is no automatic way to resequence your collection so that the most recent purchase is always #1.  You can, however, resequence your collection so that the oldest purchase is #1 and you can use VirusPil's suggestion to sort so the most recent purchase is listed first.  This is the method I use.

Release date isn't purchase date.

For every sorting option, you can sort forwards or backwards: "A to Z" or "Z to A", "1 to 1,000,000" or "1,000,000 to 1", "Earliest Purchase Date to Latest Purchase Date" or "Latest Purchase Date to Earliest Purchase Date."

Assuming you have entered all of your purchase dates correctly in the "Personalize DVD" window/tab (CTRL+P), then it should be only a matter of selecting which way you want to sort. In this case:

Right-click any title in your Owned list (or go to "Collection" at the top of the screen as Kathy suggests) -> Sort By -> Purchase Date -> Descending

This should put the DVD's in order of the dates you indicated for when they were purchased. If you do not enter the purchased dates correctly then the list will not be in the correct order. Collection Numbers (also found in the Personalize DVD window) can serve the same purpose.

If you feel the need to physically see that the dates are in the correct order, you right-click any title in your Owned list and select

View Columns -> Purchase Date

This will add a column next to the existing one(s) that you can read the dates from as well as click to quickly sort them if you think they are out of order again.


A newly added DVD will not likely "jump instantly" into place if you wait until after the profile(s) has/have completely downloaded before entering your personalized data (the purchase date in this case). If you check the box at the bottom of the window you use to download the profiles to ask it to Prompt for Personalization then it will bring up that window before the download happens and should put them correctly at the top instantly. Given it only takes two clicks (or one if you add the column I mentioned) to re-sort the list, there is little need to have it snap to the top "instantly."

Ok what i have done is starting with collection number 1 DVD i put yesterdays date as the purchase date, for DVD 2 the day before, DVD 3 the day before that and so on. When i go to sort by>purchase date descending the list goes into a seemingly random order with the dates totally mixed up......don't know what I'm doing wrong