In Finder, getting folders NOT to the top

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In Finder, getting folders NOT to the top

I keep having Finder pushing my folders to the top even though in my Finder prefs the option is NOT checked ( and this option is btw only valid when "sorted by name" is used ).

I'm not sorting my files & folders by name, only by [date modified] and that's the criteria being affected, not the [date created] or [date added].

The "disobedient" folders just receive a new time stamp with the hour and minute of the opening of the containing folder and thus, before my eyes, jump to the top where they sit until the next time there are in the open window and pushed up again.

Does someone have a good terminal command to kill this behaviour ?

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), i7 @ 2.7 GHz - 16 GB Ram

Posted on Mar 1, 2018 7:29 PM

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Eric Root

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Mar 1, 2018 7:58 PM in response to roadswitcher

Might be a corrupt .plist.

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Re-launch Finder by restarting the computer and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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In Finder, getting folders NOT to the top

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