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Change the position of folders in sort by Kind views
Authored by: frankxiv on Jan 23, '05 02:24:44AM

I have been looking for a way to make all folders float to the top for so long that I tried this tip without thinking it through. While it does as advertised you have to take note that it floats the folders to the top when sorting by KIND. In other words, the folders float to the top but the rest of the list is sorted by kind and therefore your other files aren't in alphabetical order. Instead they are in order by KIND and then alphabetical in their different kinds. This makes the tip completely useless for what I want :-(

What I am looking for is a tip that will work in list or column view and will sort the items as follows:

1) List all folders alphabetically.
2) List all remaining files alphabetically.

Later, Frank



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Change the position of folders in sort by Kind views
Authored by: zorinlynx on Mar 20, '05 03:07:55PM

I've always wondered why Apple doesn't implement this. It sounds like something obvious and yet they still haven't added it in. Anyone using a Tiger preview know if it's in Tiger yet?



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Change the position of folders in sort by Kind views
Authored by: boothefox on Jun 14, '07 06:02:34AM

OMG if this was already known before Tiger and they didn't implement it.... it means in Leopard they won't do that too... stubborn foools... :/



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Change the position of folders in sort by Kind views
Authored by: chimerical on Oct 28, '08 04:49:31PM

I'm still waiting for this behavior too.



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