Is Sierra's Finder icon view sort broken?

It looks like Sierra's Finder icon view has changed its sort arrangement to left to right across rows by default, which is a lot harder to read. Has anyone figured out how to set it back to sorting down the columns?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Oct 13, 2016 8:53 AM

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Oct 21, 2016 6:59 AM in response to trevoz

If I look back to 10.6. the sort order is down the column. It was down the column in 10.11, for my environment at least, and changed after the 10.12 update. Older systems now sort across the rows, too. Either I had not resorted since 10.6, or the last update for recent systems changed the default sort. I have a 10.6 system that still sorts down the column. Either way, it's a lot more difficult to find files now.

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Is Sierra's Finder icon view sort broken?

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