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From: jessedorland on 13 Jul 2008 09:22
Hi

Is there a way to make finder list all the folders first?

From: TaliesinSoft on 13 Jul 2008 10:01
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:22:21 -0500, jessedorland(a)hotmail.com wrote
(in article
<c5ff2e49-5a2c-4eea-aa30-f9f255143ff6(a)m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>):


> Is there a way to make finder list all the folders first?

With a Finder window open select "View " in the menu and then select "Keep
Arranged by Kind". The folders will then appear first, followed by the other
icons.

By selecting the "Show View Options" from the "View" menu the folder first
arrangement can be made to apply to every Finder window.

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From: Gregory Weston on 13 Jul 2008 11:39
In article <0001HW.C49F74D700252A35B01AD9AF(a)News.Individual.NET>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)mac.coom> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:22:21 -0500, jessedorland(a)hotmail.com wrote
> (in article
> <c5ff2e49-5a2c-4eea-aa30-f9f255143ff6(a)m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>):
>
>
> > Is there a way to make finder list all the folders first?

No.

> With a Finder window open select "View " in the menu and then select "Keep
> Arranged by Kind". The folders will then appear first, followed by the other
> icons.

In list view, there's no such option. Just clicking in the Kind header.
In columns view, there's no analogous behavior at all.

Whether you use a sorted list view, or the keep arranged option in icon
view, there's no guarantee that folders will come first. They're sorted
according to the lexical ordering of their "kind" string (or whichever
other key you've chosen). So, for example, in my Documents folder I've
got a few free-floating "BBEdit text document" files and one
"com.apple.appleworks.document" that come before any folders when I sort
by kind.

G

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From: TaliesinSoft on 13 Jul 2008 18:21
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:39:01 -0500, Gregory Weston wrote
(in article <uce-0B368A.11390113072008(a)newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>):

> In article <0001HW.C49F74D700252A35B01AD9AF(a)News.Individual.NET>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)mac.coom> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:22:21 -0500, jessedorland(a)hotmail.com wrote
>> (in article
>> <c5ff2e49-5a2c-4eea-aa30-f9f255143ff6(a)m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>):
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way to make finder list all the folders first?
>
> No.
>
>> With a Finder window open select "View " in the menu and then select "Keep
>> Arranged by Kind". The folders will then appear first, followed by the
>> other
>> icons.
>
> In list view, there's no such option. Just clicking in the Kind header.
> In columns view, there's no analogous behavior at all.
>
> Whether you use a sorted list view, or the keep arranged option in icon
> view, there's no guarantee that folders will come first. They're sorted
> according to the lexical ordering of their "kind" string (or whichever
> other key you've chosen). So, for example, in my Documents folder I've
> got a few free-floating "BBEdit text document" files and one
> "com.apple.appleworks.document" that come before any folders when I sort
> by kind.

Oops, I stand corrected. Interestingly I've always had the folder icons
precede the other icons when I've chosen "Keep Arranged by Kind". Also, I
made the mistake of thinking icon view, as I very, very, rarely use the other
views.

Live and learn! :-)


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From: Jesse Dorland on 14 Jul 2008 12:18
On Jul 13, 11:39 am, Gregory Weston <u...(a)splook.com> wrote:
> In article <0001HW.C49F74D700252A35B01AD...(a)News.Individual.NET>,
>
>  TaliesinSoft <taliesins...(a)mac.coom> wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:22:21 -0500, jessedorl...(a)hotmail.com wrote
> > (in article
> > <c5ff2e49-5a2c-4eea-aa30-f9f255143...(a)m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > > Is there a way to make finder list all the folders first?
>
> No.
>
> > With a Finder window open select "View " in the menu and then select "Keep
> > Arranged by Kind". The folders will then appear first, followed by the other
> > icons.
>
> In list view, there's no such option. Just clicking in the Kind header.
> In columns view, there's no analogous behavior at all.
>
> Whether you use a sorted list view, or the keep arranged option in icon
> view, there's no guarantee that folders will come first. They're sorted
> according to the lexical ordering of their "kind" string (or whichever
> other key you've chosen). So, for example, in my Documents folder I've
> got a few free-floating "BBEdit text document" files and one
> "com.apple.appleworks.document" that come before any folders when I sort
> by kind.

Thanks for the head up :) I hope our Boy Steve Jobs will add this
feature in the next update.
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