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Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by p3t3r

p3t3r — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:53:22 +0000

legend!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Lee

Lee — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:55:20 +0000

I’m beginning to hate apple, I never reply to this kinda info, but seriously I’ll say thank you this time. There’s so many forced changes that keep happening and it’s really unfair and I don’t understand why Apple keep messing around with it’s loyal clients by not introducing changes as optional rather than forcing them and not explaining to you what’s changed and how to change it back if you don’t want the change!!!

They’re going to lose everyone else to a new company soon that actually cares about people that are happy the way things are! this sorting bullshit is not improving anyone’s working speed. Stop slowing people down by forcing these stupid changes Apple!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by TTFN: Fixing Finder Window File Sorting in OS X Lion « Hover Balcony

TTFN: Fixing Finder Window File Sorting in OS X Lion « Hover Balcony — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:36:20 +0000

[...] “Arranging by” and “Sorting by” are useful new features, but having them enabled by default with no explanation leaves power users like me with unclickable column headers and no explanation, which equals frustration. Read this article for more explanation on how to use the new behaviors: http://inner.geek.nz/archives/2011/08/10/howto-fix-file-sorting-in-finders-column-view-on-mac-os-x-li… [...]

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by John K

John K — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:11:25 +0000

Couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t sort downloads folder by clicking column names until I read this. I set arrange by to none and it works again. Thanks for the info.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:01:18 +0000

This really pissed me off last night. Thank you so much good sir!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by tonim

tonim — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:55:51 +0000

GREAT!!!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Brett

Brett — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:51:30 +0000

If you do the Sort by -> Name thing again, it will go from alphabetically descending (Z -> A) to alphabetically ascending (A -> Z). Hope that helps

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by K2

K2 — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:24:43 +0000

Oddly enough, I followed your tip, but when I used “Hold Option, View > Sort By > Name ^⌥⌘1,” it was still backwards alphabetical order. Meaning, ABCs were at the bottom, and XYZs were at the top of the list. I fixed mine by doing “Hold Option, View > Sort By > Label ^⌘7.” In case anyone had the weird issue like me. Thank you though!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by jc

jc — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:40:54 +0000

THANK YOU. I have been going crazy for the last week trying to figure this out.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by phil cox

phil cox — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:45:21 +0000

Nice one !

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by behr

behr — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:50:14 +0000

Thanks to you my mac is not taking flying lessons today (and the finder wasn’t/isn’t the only thing going haywire today)

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by R

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 22:41:04 +0000

Do you know how to PERMANENTLY sort- resp. arrange-by? Whenever the User quits (kills) Finder, or logs out or shutsdown, etc., then returns, one finds the Finder again in Tohuwahbohu. The Settings seem to need to be entered EVERY TIME. (Really Mac? What kind of Programming is this?)

Anyway, should you have a solution to this further Problem, do let us know.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Josh

Josh — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:35 +0000

THankyou!!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Alejandro

Alejandro — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:08:00 +0000

@ Gasbi: I don’t think you can sort in an arbitrary order, but what you can do is to add a number to the beginning of the file, e.g. 1- file A, 2- file B…etc. and then you just add the number to the files in the order you want them to appear in your folder. Suerte!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by St.J

St.J — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:19:15 +0000

Thank you so much.
This was driving me spare.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Victor

Victor — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:53:20 +0000

YES! YES! YESSS! THANK YOU!!! I was about to go crazy over this, you just made my day! Not that I’d understand the difference between these two options in any way, but at least I could get Finder to again sort alphabetically in column view. Thanks so much!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by gasbi

gasbi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:39:57 +0000

This is great, but I haven’t solved my problem yet. The issue is that I am in a folder in column view and I want to rearrange the files in it manually, so I don’t want to sort them (using “Sort By”) by name or any other option (and there isn’t “none” option as it is in “Arrange By”), and when I try to drag one file (i.e. the first one) to the last position it doesn’t let me to do it.

I hope you understand me and you know the solution, Thanks

PD: sorry about my english, I’m spanish

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by gasbi

gasbi — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:07:05 +0000

I hope you understand me and you know the solution, Thanks

PD: sorry about my english, I’m spanish..

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Allan

Allan — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:23:08 +0000

Thanks. WTF does Apple keep making changes, then making the changes active by default? C’Mon!

If it wasn’t for people like Brett, we’d continue to suck thanks to that “imposed change”. Much appreciated Brett, you lift us up from the suck with cool tricks like this.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by zebu

zebu — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:48:39 +0000

Thanks you very much, this have been driving me crazy!

Comment on Loading JSON in ActionScript 2 by Brett

Brett — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:42:27 +0000

Sorry, I haven’t touched AS2 in many years for good reason, namely AS3 is much better. This post is from 2007 and really should stay there Also, Flash is dying if you haven’t heard.

Comment on Loading JSON in ActionScript 2 by Nathan Scovell

Nathan Scovell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:26:16 +0000

Hello, I am trying to learn how to use this with actionscript 2 and address the data to movieclips. Could you email me an example of using JSON with movieclips in flash.

Nathan

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Mike

Mike — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:40:08 +0000

Huge thanks for this. Like everyone else I have been so frustrated by this, and many other, changes in Lion. Thanks again for taking the time to post.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Brett

Brett — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:31:24 +0000

You might want to try TotalFinder by BinaryAge. It has an option in it to sort folders first like you want. Hope this helps! http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/

Comment on Loading JSON in ActionScript 2 by Brett

Brett — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:29:00 +0000

I didn’t write this library, just found the only existing copy of it.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by ordinary01

ordinary01 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:58:32 +0000

thank u for this. but i still can not sort it the way microsoft windows has it, i.e. folders first and files after, by name, kind or whatever. if i do in arrange view and then resize the finder window the file and folder icons are not rearranged according to window size. disgusting still for me. any idea?

Comment on Loading JSON in ActionScript 2 by brad

brad — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:18:33 +0000

Hey! Thanks for the code…. I’d suggest just showing some sample data though, instead of no data…. as I tried to use this and got “undefined” results, and burned about 30 min before I realized the problem was the print_a function not working well with my JSON data…. I incorrectly assumed the problem was with the JSON.as file and looked around for newer revs! Thanks so much for the post!.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by Steven

Steven — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:50:12 +0000

Thanks! Was driving me nuts as well.

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by G

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:58:41 +0000

Thanks so much! This was driving me nuts!

Comment on HOWTO: Fix file sorting in Finder’s column view on Mac OS X Lion by David

David — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:29:54 +0000

Oh thank you thank you thank you!!! This has been driving me absolutely bonkers since upgrading to lion! For the life of me I couldn’t figure out what to do to get my alphabetical sorting back in the column view. I am sooo glad I found this post!