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

By: Chris

Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:50:17 +0000

I’ve putting up with this for over a year! Thank you so much for sharing this insight.

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By: Eric

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:21:13 +0000

Just wanted to take the time to say thanks and note that this is still useful info 4 years on, in Yosemite.

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By: Cleo

Wed, 27 May 2015 13:24:45 +0000

Thanks. Still a relevant tip in 2015!

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By: Miah

Wed, 20 May 2015 08:52:58 +0000

Thank you so much! This was driving me absolutely crazy.

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By: daless14

Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:57:40 +0000

Just now finding this. Thanks so much! This has been annoying me for the last couple of months and this is the only with a solution that worked!

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By: Scotty

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 20:05:57 +0000

Thanks Apple has been trying for weeks to fix this and it even went to a second level engineer. You must be a third level at least !

Is there any way to sort with the Folders at the Top?

Thanks for your help

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By: Scott

Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:18:22 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!

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By: Nabeel

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:42:11 +0000

Ahhh Brett u are my dude! Thanks man I’ve been so frustrated about this. I was avoiding doing a search because I’m so stubborn and never in a million years did I think something so simple would be left out of Finder’s options.

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By: chirco

Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:00:42 +0000

it worked, haha, thanks.

I just updated my OS to Yosemite, and it was giving me the same problem, would not arrange by name ..

your little trick worked!

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By: Raphael McBain

Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:01:02 +0000

Thanks to you I am again able to view Finder screen as I desire.

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By: AJ

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:56:07 +0000

Thank you so much! This was really helpful!

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By: JE

Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:01:09 +0000

Thanks so much!

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By: billinrio

Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:44:56 +0000

Great tip! I had struggled with this problem for so long without finding a solution that I was convinced that I should just chalk it up to another negative regarding Lion. But thanks to you, now I can sort in list view by clicking on the column headings. Just like in the good old (pre-Lion) days.

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By: samsam

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:19:41 +0000

thanks man that really was bugging me!

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By: pweee

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:28:20 +0000

thanks.! worked a charm! on 10.8.4

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By: Andy

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:25:58 +0000

This has been so frustrating, thanks for the advice!

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By: Jane Manthorpe

Wed, 15 May 2013 05:16:25 +0000

Thank you so much, I am so grateful for finding your post on this. This has been driving me crazy!! and thanks to you, I know now how to get things sorted in the order I want

Cheers
Jane

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By: tdpark

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:48:11 +0000

This was driving me nuts! Thank you inner.geek for publishing this, you have just been added as a bookmark. Funny how this just all of a sudden happened…

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By: Joyce

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:16:04 +0000

I just this out.
In order to sort items by Kind in Column View.
While in Column View, right click>Show View Options>Sort By Kind. Voila!

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By: hahyonhwatha

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:05:24 +0000

thankyou
this was driving me nuts.
i even bought forklift to see things in alphanumeric order again.

so a gift of thanks

another nuisance of osx is it can’t without severe pain or other utilities print out a list of files as shown in finder.
simply drag the file to a firefox window (busy or not)

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By: Paul van Nierop

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:17:01 +0000

Another one, who just found out what was boggling me for so long. I hope Apple does not mind you doing their job?
Thanks and all the best
Paul

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By: R

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:18:49 +0000

Wow! That is messed up. I just got a massive headache trying to figure this one out. The strange thing is that I had it “sortable” and all of the sudden I lost it.

Thank you,

–R

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By: Bo

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:23:23 +0000

Does anyone know how to “lock” in a view option to a individual folder without the view option on the parent folder changing also? For example I have a Document Folder, inside that Personal Folder, inside that Receipts 2013 Folder, inside that are all my receipts that have been named. I would like the Receipts 2013 to be sorted by (date created) when I open it not by name but when I change the View option it changes everything thats in the Document Folder and the Personal Folder as well. Can I set a rule that will only set view options for one folder?

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By: Belden

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:49:29 +0000

Many thanks. This was driving me nuts!

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By: Charles

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:41:20 +0000

[[p.s Should have added … I have a suspicion that there’s some sort of Command sequence that’s active while a sheet is frontmost that changes the view parameters of the sheet.]]

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By: Charles

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:36:15 +0000

Wow! Yikes! Fixed a problem that’s been nagging me for a month. In my case sheet (for example, Save As …) showed items in my home directory in reverse alphabetical order (Z-A), but viewing the same directory in the Finder had them in normal order (A-Z). I recall that the problem started when I accidentally hit two keys instead of one while a Save sheet was open – perhaps Shift-Return instead of the intended Return, or maybe Option or even Control. In any event, the Z-A order sheet list stuck for a month even with the Finder’s view A-Z. Messing with Finder View didn’t help, deleting .DStore didn’t help. I’m still not clear on the mechanism or the impli9cations, but many thanks for making the post and solving the immediate problem.

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By: joblufish

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:39:05 +0000

Thank you for this suggestion, but unfortunately I still have a problem. Part of the list will sort alphabetically, while a few folders just randomly insert themselves where they wish. And they are consistent about it. Beyond the menu sorting, is there anything else that could cause this? The occasional glass of wine helps, but it sure would be better to figure this out. Even the numbers get jumbled. Thoughts? Thank you.

for example – listed by name/none
Dog
Christmas
blank
backup
welcome
photo
parents

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By: Jonathon

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:22:51 +0000

Thank you for posting this – as a recent Mac convert, I was really bothered that using column view / arrange by kind, that it was listing the items out of alphabetical order. Figures there would be a hidden option menu in the belly of the beast! Thanks again!

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By: Mark

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:33:34 +0000

…By the way, re: above comment: this was all done in the “Icon” view of Finder… not sure that changes anything? AND ALSO, my reason for wanting to order photos by “(earlier) date created” –> to “(later) date created”, is to select these files & upload (in chronological order) to Facebook…

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By: Mark

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:00:57 +0000

Awesome mate!!!! Everyone’s already said it before me, but: Thanks so much for taking your valuable time to put this on the web for others’ benefit – I would’ve went crazy otherwise!!!….

…ONLY ONE MORE QUESTION: I used your valuable tip to fix up my photo files (in a folder) to Sort-by “Date Created”. It worked well (except for a few “sub-groups” – as another commenter put it previously, which were different file types – not sure what to do there..??..) ANYWAY.. only problem now is the sorted files run backwards (i.e. from most recent –> least recent) …HOW DO I REVERSE THIS ORDER OF “DATE CREATED” within the folder view..??

Thanks again, Mark

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