Finder "Arrange By" broken since upgrade ? - All files arranged as "Other"

I am not sure if this started happening because of the most recent upgrade or if this even affects other users, but I am experiencing the following issue. The "Arrange By" feature in Finder will only differentiate between "Folders" and "Other". I have tried PDF, PNG, XLS, XLSX, and PPTX files - all get arranged as "Other".

Is anyone else experiencing this issue or has perhaps even found a fix ?

EDIT: Spelling, categories

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Finder

Posted on Sep 11, 2015 2:18 AM

16 replies

altabq Author

Level 1

16 points

Oct 5, 2015 12:53 AM in response to Barney-15E

Everything is working again. I had reset the spotlight index numerous times - through prefpane and mdutil. At some point things got back to normal. So, it wasn't fixed right away by resetting the index but eventually, that does seem to have done the trick. Thanks everyone for the help!

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