Q: Could someone tell me how to stop folders and icons from rearranging themselves
Before I updated to El Capitan I could arrange folders on my desktop or within any folder I opened in finder in whatever order I wished and they would STAY THAT WAY. Now, folders and icons within folders rearrange themselves, usually alphabetically, every time I add, remove, or move something within a folder. This is causing serious grief for me and making my workflow extremely inefficient.
I've managed to stop the folders on my desktop from rearranging by going into View > Show View Options > and selecting Sort: None (thank you Mac forum), and I can do this in a folder if I want to rearrange things myself, but I seem to need to do this for every single folder individually and there's no guarantee that the next time I turn on my computer it will still be in that order. Before El Capitan I could move my folders manually on my desktop and within a folder, and if things were getting a little messy, or I wanted to start over I simply selected Sort > By Name and everything would be neatly back to alphabetical, in grid form, on the right side of my screen or in a grid at the top of a folder. AND...if I wanted to manually move a folder or an icon after sorting by name, I could still do that, without having to go to Sort: None. Now, if I say Sort: None, which seems to be the only way to manually sort icons or folders, suddenly my neat grid of folders are all over my desktop or jumbled up within a folder, unlike before when they would simply stay in a grid in alphabetical order, making it a lot easier to find things when rearranging manually. In my workflow I need to be able to sort things and have them stay there, so how do I get this to work as before. Could someone please tell me if there is a simple way to have things work as they used to, when the only time my folders or icons arranged themselves was when I TOLD THEM TO, bearing in mind I am not that computer literate, so if it involves code, or going beyond preferences or settings, you've lost me.
iMac, iOS 10
Posted on Sep 24, 2016 4:14 PM
Princessdebula wrote:
item is dragged into the folder, the target folder you wanted to put it in moves, triggered by the name on the file you're dragging into it.
This doesn't sound right.
If you are anywhere near an Apple store you can get over the counter assistance.
Genius reservation http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
Posted on Sep 25, 2016 3:19 PM
