OS X V10.7 Lion :: Any Way To Sort Files In Finder First By Kind Then By Name?

Apr 14, 2012

Is there any way to sort files in my finder first by kind (folders, pdfs, jpegs, docxs, etc.) and then by name? Right now I can only sort by one or the other. If I sort by kind, the files are grouped according to kind, but the names are mixed up. If I sort by name, all file types and folders are sorted according to name. I like the column view because directory structure can be seen easily.

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Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X :: Sorting Bunch Of Files By Kind In Finder

Aug 28, 2010

I just noticed sorting a bunch of files by 'kind' that it groups .php, .css, .js and others all as 'plain text file'. This is pretty useless, and I don't know if there's perhaps a way to set things up differently? I have all said files associated with Coda.

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Applications :: Apple Finder - How To View Folders/files In A List But Still Rearrange By Kind

Mar 30, 2009

For those of you who know Windows, you can view your folders/files in a list but still re-arrange by type/kind (i.e. I will get the folders first, then the different kinds of files).

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OS X :: Snow Leopard - Finder - Sort Folders And Files?

Sep 11, 2009

I really prefer Windows way of sorting a folder, first folders and then files, is there a way to do it in Snow Leopard? I have done this: [URL:...] But that doest work for me in SL.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Can't Arrange Files By Click 'size' / 'kind'

Jul 4, 2012

The top bar of some folders is fade. I can't arrange files by click "size", "kind" and etc. How can I make it active?

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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Finder Unable To Sort File Name In Column Mode

Apr 20, 2012

About 2 weeks ago suddenly Finder are unable to sort files in alphabetical order in Column mode.About the same time when my external HDD died (don't know whether this has any effect). 

Sorting by name works fine in icon only mode, but whenever I switch to Column mode its completely disorganized.And when I tried in coverflow mode its alphabetical but in inverted mode (Z to A). 

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MacBook Air

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MacBook Pro :: Customize "sort By" For Files In Finder?

Jun 18, 2012

how do i avoid alphabetizing files by name and other options in "Sort by" in Lion finder?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Sort Scanned PDF Files

Jun 23, 2012

I have a lot of PDF and other files in general that I would like to keep sorted by date. Normally in finder options I would sort them by date but the problem is that the bulk of them were added to my laptop by scanning, e mail hard drives so the creation dates of these files is not necessarily the same date as these statements. I tried naming theses files by date e.g. 10/02/12 etc but obviously this did not work as numbers are recognised in sequence and not by calender.

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Sort ALL Folders / Subfolders And Files On Mac By Name

May 5, 2012

I want to sort ALL the files on my mac so that no matter what folder i'm in or how deep in folders i am everything is sorted by name.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Sort Files And Folders By Date

Jul 6, 2012

how to sort files and folders by date. As all this data is from the last 5 years naming them alphabetically (jan 09, feb 10 etc) was not working. create names numerically yy/mm/dd. While this works I have many folders, sub folders and sub sub folders and it gets somewhat confusing at times. Is there some alternate solution so that I can name folders by month and year alphbetically and force Finder Column view to show me the list in the way I want ( such as Jan09, Feb 09, march 10, april 10 etc)

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X :: Change Finder Kind From Folder To _Folder

Mar 17, 2008

Can one change the KIND (as in "Sort by Kind") of a FOLDER from "Folder" (as seen in Finder) to Something else?

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OS X :: Sort Finder In One Place Only

Feb 7, 2010

I'd like to be able to sort my downloads folder by Date, but have other places in the Finder sorted by Name. Is there any way to do this?

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OS X :: How To Sort Finder Window By Date Added

Dec 19, 2010

When I right click a folder I have dragged to the Dock I get the option to sort by "Date Added". This is super handy and I would like to be able to do it throughout the Finder but I can't find the option anywhere. Please note: I realize there is Date Created and Date Modified, these are not what I'm wanting to do, if a file was created and last modified a year ago, but added to a folder five minutes ago, I want to be able to sort the folder contents so that the file just added appears at the top of the list. (As they do in Stacks.)

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OS X :: How To Sort Folders At Top Of File View In Finder

Jul 30, 2009

I'm a recent switcher, and of course would never voluntarily go back to a PC. Love everything about the Mac for the most part.

One thing that has bugged me: In Windows File Explorer, when browsing files, all the folders are at the top (in alpha order), then the files are sorted below that in alpha order.

In Finder, the folders are mixed in so everything is alpha all together.

I would prefer seeing all my folders at the top.

Is there a setting that controls this?

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MacBook Pro :: Disks Won't Show Up In Finder - Run / Sort This?

Apr 25, 2010

I have a unibody MBP with Snow Leopard on it. I haven't put a disk in it in a long time but tonight when I did, it slowly spins, etc and then ejects it in about 15 seconds. It doesn't show up in finder at all.

I first put in my snow leopard disk, then a dvd, then a music cd... nothing.

I went to the finder preferences and made sure everything looked ok, but no joy.

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OS X Mavericks :: Sort By Name In Finder When Numbers In Filename

Aug 26, 2014

If I have the following folders or files (the numbers in which represent dates):

"20120211 abcdef" and "2014 abcdef" then, if I sort the files by Name in Finder, they will be sorted like this:

"2014abcdef"

"20120211abcdef" 

so Finder seems to be treating the numeric characters as numeric values and sort the files by numeric value. 

How to change this behavior and tell Finder to treat numeric characters as alphabetical characters and sort the files/folders like:

"20120211abcdef"

"2014abcdef" 

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 240 GB SSD/1 TB HDD/8 GB RAM

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Is There A 'Numbers Widget' Kind Of Thing

May 7, 2012

Is there a "Numbers Widget" kind of thing? I would really love to have the power of Numbers as a "fast access" calculator throuhg a widget, so I was sondering if something like that exists or if someone would like to do it becuase I don't know anything about programation.

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Widgets, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 8 cores 8 GB RAM

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Why Can't See Files In Finder

Feb 4, 2012

I'm running Lion 10.7.2 and have noticed in Finder that the contents of many folders aren't visible.  This seems to be for newer files added.  For example, I copied a folder from a thumb drive, into my (username) -> (Documents) folder.  I see that folder name, but there are no files inside.  When I "Get Info" about that folder, it tells me, as expected, there are 30 items, and almost a MB of data.  Furthermore, when I back up to SuperDuper, I can actually see what I'm looking for - all files are there in that folder and for every other folder!  In addition, searching in Spotlight finds any/all of the files contained within the folder. My problem, again, is that no files, none, not one, are visible in various folders, yet they exist, and are retrievable, via Spotlight. Should I do a disk check, or other recommended procedures? 

Model Name: iMac  Model Identifier:iMac9,1  Processor Name:  Intel Core 2 Duo  Processor Speed: 2.93 GHz  Number of Processors: 1  Total Number of Cores:2  L2 Cache: 6 MB  Memory:  8 GB  Bus Speed:  1.07 GHz

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iMac (USB 2.0), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Finder Not Showing Files?

Feb 24, 2012

i copied a user folder from my old windows machine it was a ntfs hard dive to my dekstop. I can see the folder structure and the folder took a while to copy over but there are not files in the folders. They seem to be hidden?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: All Files Are Missing In Finder

Mar 25, 2012

It seems that I've made something and now I can't see my files in the All My Files Finder ...

Is it possible to restore the Finder Preferences to Default ? Or , How can I see all files again ? 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: New Files Do Not Appear In Finder After SMB Connection

Jun 3, 2012

Connecting to a Windows Server 2003 share via SMB has an undesirable side effect: after the SMB connection is established, all newly created files saved to the local hard drive do not appear in Finder or in application's open dialog box.Using SMB because after I upgraded a bunch of Mac Pros to Lion 10.7.4 (from 10.6.8 using Apple's latest 10.7.4 installer) these Macs can no longer connect to Windows Server 2003 shares via AFP. I tried the advice given in OS X Lion: Connecting to legacy AFP services url..., but it does not fix the problem.I can connect using SMB, but that causes an unacceptable side effect: after connecting via SMB the Macs' file system no longer displays newly created files. To repeat: If I go to (for example) TextEdit and save a newly-created file to the Desktop or to a folder, that file does not appear in the Finder or in an application's Open dialog box. 

These newly created files can be found by searching by name or using All My Files. If I click on the file in the list of found files and nudge its icon a tiny bit, the vanished file will suddenly appear in the Finder. Sometimes on Desktop when a file is made to appear by nudging only the file's name will appear. Its icon will be transparent.I can clear this problem by restarting. All vanished files will become visible. Then everything works normally until the Windows 2003 Server is accessed using SMB. Then the problem returns for all files created after that.My temporary solution is to use muCommander to access the Windows Server via SMB. muCommander does not trigger the problem.

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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X :: Sort / List All Files By Size?

Feb 7, 2009

I'll be getting an 80GB Air this week and I'm trying to gauge how much space I'll use up. Right now I have about 80GB of space used up on my hackintosh, but allot if it is junk I probably won't transfer over. Is there a way to look at all the files on my computer in order from largest to smallest?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Finder Fails To Open Files

Mar 27, 2012

Since few weeks, finder doesn't work, except when it wants to work..OS X 10.7.3, Files can not be opened sinc the same time

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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Unable To Move Files In Finder

Apr 4, 2012

I am no longer able to move files via Finder or on my Desktop. When I click on a file, it is selected and the name of the file is high lighted in blue. I can move it around the screen but it is "stuck" to the cursor. When I let go of the mouse button, the file remains stuck to the cursor and sometimes, I can interact with various elements, i.e. buttons, etc. as if the file had never been selected, yet its icon remains attached to the cursor. After a while, the icon will disappear.I have tried restarting, shutting down and restarting and repairing permissions without success.Also, looks like auto-correction and spelling is no longer working either as it doesn't recognize misspelled words anymore.

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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 15" Mid-2009, 8GB, 500 Hybrid SSD

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Any Way To See NRW Files From Nikon As Thumbnails In Finder?

May 3, 2012

I have been waiting long for Apple to add the function to see raw-files from Nikon P7000 in Finder. The files are called .NRW (not the usual .NEF). Is there any way to see the files as thumbnails in Finder?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Finder Copying Not Moving Files

May 20, 2012

I just tried to move a bunch of file from the desktop to a folder on the desktop and it copied them - normally it would move them how is this please (I was not touching the control key)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Why Are Finder Alias Files So Huge Lately

May 29, 2012

Why are alias files so big now? Before (OSX 10.3), they were rarely bigger than 1 KB, but now (OSX 10.7), they're often up to 1.6 MB!  Can we do something to keep them small?   As I understand it, an alias is just a pointer or reference to another file.  When you open or print it, the operating system actually opens or prints the original file referenced.  All that needs to be stored is the directory path to the original file, either (or both) as a full reference or a relative reference, plus its file system ID and perhaps a drive ID (in case it's moved).  This should take only a few bytes.  On prior Mac operating system versions (e.g., 10.3.9), these alias files were just a few hundred bytes in size, rarely over 1,400 bytes total.  But now I notice that, under Mac OS 10.7, newly created alias files are always hundreds of KB large, and can typically be as huge as 1.6 MB!  The custom icon only accounts for a fraction of this size.  However, sometimes they can still be as small as before (only a few hundred bytes).  Old aliases from a prior OS version (usually but not always) still work in opening their original file, so apparently we don't need the extra size.  So, what is in these files?!  I know these are analogous to "shortcut" files under MS Windows, which are not that large.   Having aliases be so huge defeats the purpose of a small file reference that can be used in multiple other places.  One would like to use an alias so as to not have to keep a copy of a large file.  But I notice that MB-sized aliases are often created even when the original file is a tiny 1 KB file.  Moreover, a larger original file might create a smaller alias than that for a smaller original file, even when both original files are in the same folder.  What gives?   I use aliases extensively, so as to keep references to the same original file in multiple folders, since these files fall into the multiple categories that each folder contains.  By using aliases, I ensure that there is only a single "master" version that is edited when a file is opened from any of those folders.  Many of the original files are pretty small, yet their aliases are many orders of magnitude bigger.  This is very discouraging towards using this handy feature.  Is there something I am doing wrong to end up making them so big – perhaps a system setting?  What is in these files that they need to be so huge? I suppose I can use Unix symbolic link files by using a command line in Terminal, such as 'ln -s originalfile linkfile', but these are less functional, since you can't move or rename the originalfile without breaking the linkfile's association to it. 

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Manually Arranging Files In Finder?

Jun 5, 2012

I have a folder with many pictures in it. Right now, they are in a list sorted by name:

Pic A

Pic B

Pic C

Pic D 

I would like to manually re-arrange a few so that it looks like this:

Pic A

Pic B

Pic D

Pic C 

However, Finder won't let me take them out of their arrangement. When i try to drag a file down, it just snaps back to its original position.

I've set it as Arrange by-none and sort by-name, so shouldn't this let me move them? 

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13' 2010 MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)

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Applications :: Handbrake Will Not Convert .dv - .avi Files / Sort This?

Aug 31, 2009

I need some help to convert .dv and .avi files to ipod touch compatible files using handbrake. When I try to choose either file type as the source file it just says 'no valid title found'.

The .dv file is a clip shot with my video camera and imported onto my mac using imovie, then saved as separate full quality file, in order to have a separate file that is not sitting in imovie.

The .avi file is a downloaded movie.

Both movies play fine in quicktime player and VLC player.

The Handbrake program does work as I have successfully converted a file ripped from a dvd using mactheripper.

I am surprised that I can't get it to work, as other threads on this forum recommends handbrake as the best software for video conversions for ipod.

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OS X :: Sort Video And Picture Files By Resolution?

May 13, 2010

i've got a massive photo and video library. and would like to know if there's any way i can sort through my files with finder (or any other app) by resolution?

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