"Sort by Kind" is a mess

[VTECaddict]

Is there a way to sort by kind AND alphabetically? When I do sort by kind, it puts the files in some random order (or maybe its by date?)

Also, can the categories be changed or edited? Right now it seems to lump a lot of things into "documents" (dmg, iso, zip, rar, ...)

...or if not, is there a way to just restore the behavior it had in snow leopard? (arrange by file extension and alphabetically) 😛

 

[westonm]

I had the exact same issue. (It's actually ordering them by date last opened by default.)

You have to right-click and show view options (or select it out of the view menu). Therein will be a secondary sort selector, with name as an option.

As far as I know you can't edit the categories at all.

 

[VTECaddict]

ahh, good call. didn't see the secondary sort on first glance.

i switched to sorting by application instead of by kind. it seems to separate different kinds of files better...

 

[parish]

And it still won't sort with all the folders at the top 😡

 

[joejoejoe]

what the hell is going on? I shoot on my canon in both jpeg and raw, and it snow leopard sort by kind would separate them into groups, which made organizing my files a breeze. Now, jpeg and raw ore lumped together and all mixed up.

Is there any solution to this??

 

[rorschach]

And it still won't sort with all the folders at the top 😡

http://nicnocquee.com/put-folders-on-top-when-sort-by-kind-in-mac-o

Yes, this should be an option, but there you go.