How do I arrange my folders in documents?

Organizing files and folders

If you want to add more folders to set up an organizational scheme, here's how to create a new folder:

1. Make the Finder active (click the desktop, click inside any Finder window, or click the Finder icon in the Dock).
2. From the File menu, choose New Folder; a new "untitled folder" icon appears in the active Finder window.
3. Name your folder by simply typing a name in the highlighted text box next to the folder icon.

Or, you can simply press the Shift-Command-N key combination.

To organize your files and folders, drag any file, folder, or application that you want into your new folder, or drag the folder into any other folder to establish an organized hierarchy.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2476

You can sort them any way you want bunnys. In column view select name, date modified, kind or whatever.

If that's not enough choose View Options and you can show more columns on which to sort:

It's much more flexible than a PC. It's just different, like a lot of things.

Sure! In that case you will want to use icon view, arrange by "none", use small icons and text, label position on the right, snap to grid, and grid spacing on the large side.

Something like this perhaps:

That will make your window look like this:

You can drag the icons any where you want, and they will snap into place. Just like Windows, but much more flexible, wouldn't you say?

You could number your folders, for example call the 'maths' folder '1 maths' and the 'english' folder '2 english' then they will be in the order you numbered them - clunky, yes, but a possible solution.

Manuals happens to be the name of the folder. You can name it whatever you wish.

Perhaps you could you post a screenshot of a Windows folder organized the way you want? I thought I posted an example of what you were looking for. You can rearrange the icons any way you choose and they will stay that way until you change it.

double click on the HD icon, click documents, click view, click arrange

thebunnys wrote:

How do i get that options window up?

Right click on a folder or file and select 'Get Info'.