Finder sort by name not working

In the Finder, using the column view, I have folders with over an hundred files, I would like to sort them by name since I know the name of the files and it would be easy to find it that way. Unfortunately when I select "sort by name", it doesn't look like it is sorted at all.

Maybe it is confused by the fact that English is not the first language in the setting (French Canadian, French then English US).

I'm wondering if it's a bug ... or just a crippled feature.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Nov 1, 2014 7:53 PM

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Posted on Mar 8, 2015 7:24 AM

I did finally learn how to fix this, if you are still wondering.


In the Finder View Menu, hold down Alt|Option and "arrange by" changes to "Sort by" and then you can fix this.


fun fun fun

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