This is a strange issue, and I'm not sure if it's because of Autofolder 2.0.1 or not. This is in Umbraco 4.0.3.

I have the display date in the autofolders.config set to displayDate. 

I have a news items, and news list. I'm using autofolder to create the year, month (both news list) folders. So now my news item that had a display date of 2009-12-10 would appear in Content/Home/Communications/newslist/2009/12/newsitem.aspx. The displayDate for this article is 2009-12-07.

My problem is that if I 'publish with sub-items' the month that is above the news-item (in this case 12), .the display date will switch to 2009-07-12. The item will get moved from the 12 folder to the 7 so that the url now appears as Content/Home/Communications/newslist/2009/7/newsitem.aspx. The 'Link To Document' will not update correctly. 

To make this bug even weird, if I publish any item above the month (ie 2009, the newslist) and use 'publish with subitems' everything will switch back to it's regular place. If I publish again, they will stay in this order.

So this really only happens when you publish the newslist right above the news item.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<settings>
  <folderProviders>
    <folderProvider alias="DateFolderProvider_Simple"
            assembly="/bin/AutoFolders"
            type="AutoFolders.Providers.DateFolderProvider">
      <property alias="MonthFormat">MM</property>
      <property alias="YearFormat">yyyy</property>
      <property alias="DateField">displayDate</property>
    </folderProvider>

    <folderProvider alias="DateFolderProvider_Full"
            assembly="/bin/AutoFolders"
            type="AutoFolders.Providers.DateFolderProvider">
      <property alias="DayFormat">dd</property>
      <property alias="MonthFormat">MM</property>
      <property alias="YearFormat">yyyy</property>
      <property alias="DateField">MyReleaseDate</property>
    </folderProvider>

    <folderProvider alias="AlphaFolder"
           assembly="/bin/AutoFolders"
           type="AutoFolders.Providers.AlphaFolderProvider" >
      <property alias="UseUppercase">true</property>
    </folderProvider>
  </folderProviders>

  <autoFolders>
    <autoFolder docType="News Item"
             folderProviderAlias="DateFolderProvider_Simple"
             folderDocType="News List"
             rootFolders="//node[@level=3]"
             />

    <autoFolder docType="Standard_FullExample"
             folderProviderAlias="DateFolderProvider_Full"
             rootFolders="//node[@level=2]"
             folderDocType="DateFolder"
             truncatedFolderUrl="folder-1/folder-2/newsitems"
             />

  </autoFolders>

</settings>

Thanks,

C