Sorting by "last opened date"

Not an option under List view.

It's not an option. Only list view has column options. BTW, cover flow uses one of the three other views, so it has no unique settings.

While Finder doesn't have a sort by Last Opened, for reasons unknown that is the ONLY date sort that appears in a Find window. If you want to sort everything in a folder (and all the sub-folders of that folder) by Last Opened date, you can.

1. Navigate to the folder
2. Press Command-F
3. Click on the name of the folder in the search window tool bar
4. Click the double arrows at the end of "Kind" entry and select Other at the bottom
5. Scroll down to "File invisible" and select it, and click OK--it should show up as "File Visiblity" with "Visible Items" (yeah, I know, one of the many goofs in Spotlight)
6. Everything in the folder will appear sorted by Last Opened
7. If you do this a lot for that folder, click the Save button and in the Save pane click the box for "Add to Sidebar" (it should already be selected)

Now any time you want to view the contents of that folder by date last opened, just click the Search in the Sidebar, and you're in business.
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What it does is create what Apple calls, rather misleadingly, a "Smart Folder"--it doesn't add any column anywhere. But you CAN have the Smart Folder display in its own version of List view, it will have three columns: Name, Kind, Last Opened, with Last Opened selected by default. If your Smart Folder isn't already in List view, just go to the View menu and choose it.

BTW, if you aren't interested in all the files, you can select a Kind or something else to only bring up the files you are interested in. Thus, if you are only interest in seeing images, you would leave Kind, and from the drop down menu after "Any" select Images. Instead of All, you could then select, say JPEG. From the View menu, pick List. You would then have all the jpeg files (and only the jpeg files) sorted by date last opened. If you only want PDF files, you select that option. There are lots of ways to get EXACTLY what you want listed. For instance, if you're looking for all the Microsoft Office documents, you would select Kind is Other, and then type in Microsoft.
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