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Apr 24, 2014  Sort files into folders by MONTH. Discussion in 'Mac Programming' started by VideoBeagle, Apr 23, 2014. Manual page, as well as any arbitrary text. And THEN asking for the folder to do it to.that order, or reverse it? (I may rejigger the whole thing into a service anyhow.might be useful to have in the back pocket when needed).

Click the Arrange By/Sort By icon in the Finder window toolbar (if that icon is displayed) and choose Name. You can also experiment with Arrange By, which groups items into larger categories. Nov 13, 2018  Tip: Table columns don’t sort independently from each other—all the cells in a row stay together when you sort a column. If you want to sort a column separately, first sort the column, then copy all the cells in that column. Then Undo the sort (to revert to the previous table sort order) and paste the copied cells back into the column.

Hello! I have tons of sub folders in my inbox, and I would like it to sort them all alphabetically. This was all fine, but recently the last 6 folders I added to the list were appended to the bottom of the list, and not sorted alphabetically with the rest of the sub folders. Is there anyway I can reapply the sort alphabetically feature to the folder list? I cannot seem to find it anywhere.
Troubleshooting steps I have taken:
1) Closed and restarted Mail App
2) Restarted Computer
3) Added another new folder and it is still appended to bottom of list even after all the reboots
4) Mail is confirmed to work
Any help would be great. Thanks!

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

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Emily O’Brien writes in with a question that many people share, but may be afraid to ask:

I have several folders in Finder, but I can find no way of keeping them in alphabetical order. They move according to when they were last accessed, which, for my work, is confusing.

I say folks are scared to ask, because it’s the kind of thing that seems like a novice question (which Emily isn’t, given her expert use of the term “Finder”), but it opens up the fact that every person uses the same operating system differently. Even something like sorting items isn’t perfectly exposed.

It’s possible something is broken in the Finder causing a sort problem; we should never discount that. But assuming all is well, you can sort items in a Finder window alphabetically by:

  • Clicking the Name field at the top of the list view. An upward-pointing arrow following Name indicates sorting alphabetically with numbers first, then A to Z; click again to swap to downwards, and it’s sorted Z to A, then reverse numeric order

  • Select the menu item View > Arrange By > Name.

  • Click the Arrange By/Sort By icon in the Finder window toolbar (if that icon is displayed) and choose Name.

You can also experiment with Arrange By, which groups items into larger categories, coupled with Sort By. In a downloads folder, for instance, I have Sort By set to descending chronology (oldest files first) using Date Added, and then Arrange By Set to Name. This groups items into Today, Yesterday, Previous 7 Days, Previous 30 Days, and months and years after that (as long as any items fit into each date group). Within each group, the items are alphabetized to make them easier to read through.

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