Q: Bizarre file arrangement in Finder

Thank you shahar h ! 

I used cmd+j with Macintosh HD selected. Then chose Arrange by: Name and Sort by: Name. All seems to be in alphabetical order now.

You're welcome

This happens to me also. In Finder column view, I prefer arranging "By Kind" and sorting "By Name."  When I click on a folder in OSX Mavericks all the files are scrambled.  To fix this, I have to click on a different folder, then back on the same folder and the files will arrnage by kind.

I have been looking all over the Internet for a solution----have yet to find one.  Very frustrating!

restrigram12 wrote:

 

When I click on a folder in OSX Mavericks all the files are scrambled.  To fix this, I have to click on a different folder, then back on the same folder and the files will arrnage by kind.

This is the fastest workaround by far, thanks! Though the fact that this works makes it even more infuriating that this bug exists and continues to go unrepaired.

I'll echo @dklemans again, and encourage everyone to submit this bug via Apple's feedback form for Mac OS-X.

Check out this link that helped me resolve the issue with a good explanation:

http://www.macyourself.com/2012/05/27/how-to-arrange-and-sort-files-in-finder-us ing-mac-os-x-lion/

Yep. Same here. Except I like it arranged and sorted by kind. Nevertheless, within one "block" of files they should be arranged by name, as it used to work until Mavericks came along.

I made a video of the problem, displaying a folder that contains only folders. I hope someone at Apple takes a look at it...

VIDEO:

http://youtu.be/FMFcVGYTgfg

I agree. I get frustrated every time I open Finder and it bizarly arranges my files. I have to wonder if Apple actually listens to the complaints of their users. Perhaps I'm crazy but in my mind customers are the boss and when hundreds or thousands of customers are upset... you should listen.

I want to reaarange the pictures in my finder folders manually, but it won't let me. When I try & drag a photo, it just goes back to where it was before. I've always been able to rearrange manually before in Snow Leopard & Mountain Lion. I thought I had been able to do it in Mavericks until just recently, but not sure.

Can they be arranged manually? None of the Arrange By options fit what I'm looking to do.

I'm glad to know it's not just me. I just did something weird though. I went to my settings in Finder, and selected Settings. Then I selected View Options. Here's the weird part. It SAID Arrange By Kind, Sort By Name, which is how I WANT it, but that is not what I was seeing--the files were together by kind (folders with folders, for example), but then they definitely were NOT by Name as they had been before, like everyone is reporting. So I did something just for the heck of it. I selected Arrange By Kind, Sort By Kind. And I WATCHED them folders rearrange themselves into alphabetical order!!!

That makes NO sense, and I do not know if it'll stay that way, but that's what I did. Give it a try?

This is indeed frustrating! Today is my first day usimg Mavericks, and I didn't have any complaints until I had to simply sort some files. I shoot pictures in both raw and jpeg, so my image files alternate CR2 and JPG when arranged by name. Until today (I went from Snow Leopared to Mavericks), if I sorted by Kind, it would lump the CR2 files on top, and JPGs below. With the files separated thusly, I could drop the jpgs into their own folder, then change the sort order back to by name.

Now the Arrange by option stubbornly refuses to do anything but sort by name only when using the Sort by option in the drop down

Hoquet's work around worked for me, but it shouldn't be necessary to have to do that.

Looks like 10.9.3 finally fixed this.

Unfortunately, the update did not fix this for me. Still effed up on 10.9.3 here.

I spoke to soon... (sigh)

Same here