I've downloaded various items from the internet but when I look for them in my Downloads Folder there is NEVER anything in it. I've looked in all the other places like Documents etc. but the downloads are nowhere to be found!
It only seems to be since I upgraded to Sierra.
Would someone please help me on this problem.
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), macOS Sierra (10.12.4)
How are you viewing the Applications folder?
Icon view? List view?
In Icon view, the items may be arranged manually, and if you add something in there programatically (as in clicking the above mentioned button) you don't control where it will end up - probably in a free spot in the "grid" of icons.
This is what I am guessing happened.
You can, however, force the items to go in order by option-clicking View->Sort By->Name
(this is also true in the other views, list and column)
You wrote: "In Icon view, the items may be arranged manually". Tried that but the icon just jumped back to it's previous position.
Also you wrote: "You can, however, force the items to go in order by option-clicking View->Sort By->Name
(this is also true in the other views, list and column)". Again no go.
I even moved them to alphabetical order in 'Launchpad', which worked fine, but not in the Applications list.
Any further suggestions?
For the Applications folder, what do you have selected under:
View->Arrange By
If that is anything other than "None", it will force the icons to be arranged in some way. That would explain why you can't move the icons.
If it is set to None, then holding down the Option key, you should see "View->Sort By" instead of "Arrange By" and then choosing "Name" should reorder alphabetically.
That is the way it works when you sort by name. This I think changed in Sierra. A lot of people had requested this "folders on top" behavior. If you sort and then set as Arrange By none, you should be able to do it (I am alway assuming you are in icon view).
The first will only appear after there have been downloads.
The second you'll find in the menu Safari->Preferences
You wrote : Of course double-clicking a disk image file mounts it. Nothing special in Sierra about that, or how the file system works.
So true 🙂 .
It is in alphabetical order but, along the other items, they all appear, alphabetically, AFTER the folder items. I tried dragging a folder down to the bottom but it wouldn't do it.
Indeed it has worked in Icon view, but the folders are still in the middle in List or Column views. Very strange.
My Downloads Folder always empty!
