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title: "Auto-Sort · MacMelon"
description: "Auto-Sort is Disk Housekeeper's plain-English filing. You describe the rule, then confirm the preview before files are sorted."
url: "https://macmelon.com/glossary/auto-sort"
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# Auto-Sort

Disk Housekeeper's sorter, driven by rules you write in plain English.

Auto-Sort files according to rules written the way you would say them, not in a programming language this site documents. We do not publish a grammar. The preview is the interpretation that matters: it shows which files the rule matched before anything is applied.

Sorting is not deleting. [Autopilot](https://macmelon.com/glossary/autopilot) is the watched-folder cleaner. Use Auto-Sort when the job is to file downloads or exports. Use a clean, with the Trash, when the job is to remove. Both are described on the [Disk Housekeeper](https://macmelon.com/apps/disk-housekeeper) page, and the steps are in [Sort Downloads with plain-English rules](https://macmelon.com/use-cases/sort-downloads-with-plain-english-rules).

## Apps

[Make room for what matters. Clear clutter with confidence. ### Disk Housekeeper](https://macmelon.com/apps/disk-housekeeper)

## Related guides

[### How to free up disk space on a Mac](https://macmelon.com/guides/how-to-free-up-disk-space-on-a-mac)

## Related use cases

[### Sort Downloads with plain-English rules](https://macmelon.com/use-cases/sort-downloads-with-plain-english-rules)

## Related terms

[Watched-folder cleanup in Disk Housekeeper, still behind a preview. In Sentinely, the memory fixes you have approved. ### Autopilot](https://macmelon.com/glossary/autopilot)[A required look at the files a clean will touch, before anything is removed. ### Preview before cleaning](https://macmelon.com/glossary/preview-before-cleaning)[A folder you explicitly ask Autopilot to keep an eye on. ### Watched folder](https://macmelon.com/glossary/watched-folder)