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Automatically clean up folder icons

I have been copying over some photos over to my iMac. These were in quite a lot of folders. I like to have my folders arranged tidily. After the copying had finished, the folders were a bit untidy, and I cleaned them up by using the below keyboard shortcut.

I know I can use the keyboard short cut, option, cmd, 1. But I wondered if there was some setting that I'd overlooked that could keep all my folders arranged tidily automatically, without the need for me to do the keyboard shortcut?

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iPad (3rd Gen) 32GB iPhone 5 32GB

Posted on Jan 24, 2013 12:23 PM

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Jan 24, 2013 2:02 PM in response to tal1971

Within a Folder arrange by icon>View> Show View Options

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Jan 24, 2013 2:13 PM in response to leroydouglas

leroydouglas wrote:

Within a Folder arrange by icon>View> Show View Options

I have just done what you suggested, but when I choose Snap To Grid, the folders are not rearranged, basically they have not moved.

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Jan 24, 2013 1:40 PM in response to leroydouglas

leroydouglas wrote:

On the desktop or in Finder?

Finder>View>Sort by> Snap to Grid

The folders were inside Pictures folder in Finder.

I dont see Finder>View>Sort by> Snap to Grid on my version of Mountain Lion leroy.

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Jan 24, 2013 1:27 PM in response to tal1971

On the desktop or in Finder?

Finder>View>Sort by> Snap to Grid

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Jan 24, 2013 1:52 PM in response to tal1971

Within a Folder in the finder show icon view. Show View Options>

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.8.2) 2.4GHz IntelCore i5 320 HD 8GB RAM ParallelsDesktop8.0 iPhone5_iOS6.0.2

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Jan 24, 2013 1:51 PM in response to leroydouglas

When I go into the Pictures folder that I've mentioned, and click on the Finder>View>Sort by> Snap to Grid

This is what I have shown:

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Mar 16, 2013 10:07 AM in response to tal1971

Or if you use Automator, then use the following action:

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Jan 24, 2013 4:46 PM in response to tal1971

Maybe this function no longer works in Mountain Lion.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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Mar 16, 2013 2:21 PM in response to pjdube

Thanks pjdube.

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