Controlling Finder windows/icons

[Esbenam]

Hello folks.

I am a long time mac-user but, as a control-freak, one thing I have never liked about os x is the way Finder arrange icons.

Does anyone know of a way to make the Finder windows work like windows xp folders?

I found sort of a solution for the "folders first-then files"-issue by making a small change in the Finders infoplist.strings file.

The thing that probably annoys me the most though, is the fact that I can't make Finder automatically arrange by *something* when ever I move a folder or a file into another folder. It just leaves the file at the bottom of the folder instead of arranging it by name, type, size, what-ever.

Any suggestions to anything considering this topic?

Thank you in advance

 

[Macman45]

Never Found An Under The Hood

Hello folks.

I am a long time mac-user but, as a control-freak, one thing I have never liked about os x is the way Finder arrange icons.

Does anyone know of a way to make the Finder windows work like windows xp folders?

I found sort of a solution for the "folders first-then files"-issue by making a small change in the Finders infoplist.strings file.

The thing that probably annoys me the most though, is the fact that I can't make Finder automatically arrange by *something* when ever I move a folder or a file into another folder. It just leaves the file at the bottom of the folder instead of arranging it by name, type, size, what-ever.

Any suggestions to anything considering this topic?

Thank you in advance

Way of doing this, and as you say, it leaves a mess until you right click and choose "Clean Up by..." I can live with it, but the folders are left in a mess if you don't clean them up. Be interested if anyone has another way?

 

[Esbenam]

Is there no one who can help me with this?

 

[NorthDakota91]

You just have to right-click on a folder and then select "show view options". A small window will pop up. Configure your folder there (you want to change the "order by" option) and then click "use as default" at the bottom.

Hope that helped

EDIT: Just to avoid confusion, when you click "use as default" every folder will follow the rules you've chosen. If you want to configure a single folder, don't click "use as default"