Hi everyone, I have a MacBook Pro in macOS Mojave but the files in finder could not be sorted by kind; all the pdf and docx documents are both placed in the 'other' section. I have tried reinstalling the operating system but it didn't work. Is there any way I could fix this?
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14
You have grouped by Kind, not sorted. If you want to Sort, set the group by to None, and Sort by Kind using the Option key when you press the button. Or, use cmd-j.
However, it appears your Spotlight index is not identifying those types of documents correctly.
You can try re-indexing: How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
You have grouped by Kind, not sorted. If you want to Sort, set the group by to None, and Sort by Kind using the Option key when you press the button. Or, use cmd-j.
However, it appears your Spotlight index is not identifying those types of documents correctly.
You can try re-indexing: How to rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac - Apple Support
Depends on what metadata is set for those files. That is where Spotlight gets the info to categorize them.
I don't know if the Genius Bar can help, but perhaps.
All of mine group correctly, PDF, Word docx and Excel workbooks.
You can look at the metadata by typing this into Terminal, leave a space after, then drag a file into Terminal. Select the Terminal window and hit return.
mdls
You are looking for the kMDItemKind.
Try deleting…
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
then log out then log in.
Unless you like your documents displayed by different categories, you might choose to do what I have done.
Finder : Preferences : General : New Finder windows show: [house icon w/your short username ↕︎]
Finder: Preferences : Sidebar [√] house icon with your user name
Finder : Preferences : Advanced : Keep folders on top: [√] On Desktop
Finder : Preferences : Advanced : When performing a search: [Search the Current Folder ↕︎]
Open a Finder Window, and press ⌘-J to show view options. I have mine set like the following which shows a Finder window with alphabetically sorted folders first, and followed by alphabetically sorted documents by kind (e.g all .html are together, all .txt are together, etc.). I happen to prefer the icon Finder view:
Hi Barney-15E, I tried reindexing but it didn't work.
Should I take my mbp to Genius Bar instead?
Finder 'sort by kind' not working
