Files and Folders in Save Dialogues are sorted randomly

In MacOS 12 Monterey Files and Folders in Save Dialogues are sorted randomly. If I want to save a file in the Save dialogue using Column View, suddenly the files and folders are sorted randomly. I turned off "Arrange By" but there is no "Sort By" button. I can only sort by name if I use List View, which doesn't show me the entire folder structure.

I have seen others ask this question here but nobody has provided and answer. I have looked in Finder Preferences and System Preferences but I can't find the option to change it back to how it always used to be.


This makes things really difficult where there are many files and folders with similar names and I don't know if I'm going to either save the file in the wrong folder.


Opening files in Column View is even worse. I have to basically preview every file to know which one I'm seeing because all of the files are in random order.


Please help by explaining a fix for this. MacOS never used to work this way.

MacBook, OS X 10.11

Posted on May 27, 2023 11:12 PM

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Posted on May 28, 2023 4:21 AM

Your screenshot shows the sort button to the right of the View button.

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Files and Folders in Save Dialogues are sorted randomly

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