Can I turn off grouping by date in Finder and also 'Arrange by' and 'Sort by' in ascending and descending order?

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Can I turn off grouping by date in Finder and also 'Arrange by' and 'Sort by' in ascending and descending order?

I am trying to arrange my photostream saved search (which doesn't update automatically after I did the search for the first time which is very annoying) but finder won't let me arrange in ascending order of date (i.e.: oldest to newest). Is there a way I can do this or will my folder arrangements always be the one way without the option to change it to the opposite arrangement (same for alphabetical). Also, Finder automatically arranges my photos into groups of dates (e.g.: 'previous 30 days', 'September'). Is there any way I can turn this off?

Also if anyone can fix this stupid photostream issue for me that would be great!

thanks very much

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 15, 2013 2:56 AM

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Peelo2311 Author

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Nov 27, 2013 12:04 PM in response to roccit

Even in list view, the photos are grouped by previous seven days, previous 30 days, October, and so on.. there is no option i see that will let me change to order by date modified without these groupings or to just turn these groupings off altogether

but thank you for your reply

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-Peelo2311

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roccit

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Nov 20, 2013 11:35 AM in response to Peelo2311

Have you tried using the list view in your saved search? Then you can control click (right click) on the headers and add whatever column you want. Like Created Date, or Last Modified. Then you can click those to sort.

Or am I misunderstanding your question?

-roccit

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roccit

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Nov 27, 2013 12:45 PM in response to Peelo2311

Hmm, that's not a saved search, looks like your DropBox folder. I sort of remember seeing something like that. Do you have a saved search, and does it do that there? And do all of your file lists look like that?

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roccit

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Nov 27, 2013 12:48 PM in response to Peelo2311

Oh, it might just be the arrange by. Click the gear up at the top and chagne arrange by to NONE. See if that helps.

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Peelo2311 Author

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Nov 27, 2013 2:28 PM in response to roccit

yeah sorry that was my Dropbox. It happens anywhere there were photos, so just used it as an example. As far as the photostream saved search, that still doesn't update when new photos are added but your other solution worked a peach. So simple. Thanks a mill.

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