Is there a way to automatically order files by date when attaching to an email?

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relztrah

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When I open File Explorer with the details view I can click on Date and it will immediately re-sort the files by date. However, when I want to attach a file to an email, the list automatically appears in name order. Then if I click the Date column it takes forever to sort them in date order.

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This occurs even if I use the Select a date or range feature and select today. It still takes several minutes to sort those files I added today. Granted, I normally attach a file from my scanned documents folder which contains hundreds of files. But File Explorer sorts them by date in less than a second. Only when I'm attaching a document to an email does it take so long. Is there a way to have Windows default to date order for an email file attachment?
 
There is really only one folder that I want sorted by date rather than by name. I frequently have to attach scanned documents to an email, so I save all scans to a designated folder. Obviously I want to attach the most recent scan, so that is why I want them sorted in date order rather than by name. For all other folders, sort by name order is fine.

I think that part of the reason that sorting them by date runs so slowly is because that scanned documents folder is on a second hard drive that I have in my laptop where I store files that I don't want to take up space on my main hard drive. That second hard drive is an old-fashioned magnetic HDD with spinning platters, so it's going to be slower than a SSD. But even if those platters are spinning at 33⅓ RPM it shouldn't take so long to sort them.
 
The problem could be the "cage" the HD is in or the disc itself. You could test by mounting the disc in the computer or running chkdsk externally
 
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