Finder in macOS Ventura has no file types - every file listed as 'other'

That raised an interesting point. Because I don't use Siri or Spotlight, all the tick boxes in Spotlight search results were unchecked.

Once I checked a few boxes, those file types started to be recognised again in Finder.

That's quite a strange system, and odd that those boxes being unchecked had that effect, because I've not manually unchecked them in Ventura, and the file system worked initially but fell over after a day or so.

Anyway, you put me on the right path, and I found a solution, so thanks for the help.

Okay, I've found a workaround that will do for now.

I've grouped all the files by application type, which has at least sorted them into something usable and mostly organised.

Thanks for the suggestions Randall_2023. I'll see what develops and whether a proper solution emerges.

That just puts everything in alphabetical order, but still sees everything as 'other', so I still have images mixed with documents, audio, video etc.

I should probably add that I need to use column view as part of my workflow.

Just seen this. I don't use tags, so probably not that. I deleted my com.apple.finder.plist file from library, but that didn't do anything.

I notice some fairly basic yet very useful settings that were part of system preferences, such as a shutdown and startup schedule, have now usefully been moved to only being accessible via Terminal, so I'll conclude that Ventura is a bug-filled update that's not especially user friendly, and that I will now have to look at patching things and using workarounds to get the performance that used to be part of the OS.

Your problem has nothing to do with scheduling shutdown nor the redesign of System Preferences.

I know.

I'm just pointing out that since moving to Ventura, features that were standard on previous versions of macOS are no longer included in a convenient manner and now require the user to have the ability to add commands in Terminal.

To me, Ventura isn't an upgrade, as it hasn't added anything I've found to be worthwhile, but it has removed lots of useful features I used often, while the most basic functions no longer seem to work as they should.

I don't use Spotlight or Siri, so there was nothing indexed to rebuild. All files still show as 'other'.

I gave that a go, thanks. Unfortunately it's all still a disorganised list of 'other' files.