Order of Dock Favourites

Hi. I have my Favourites folder in the dock, containing shortcuts to regularly used files and folders. This enables me to right-click and access the files easily.

However, I can't order the shortcuts in the dock folder how I'd like, ie, grouped together by kind - they're organised alphabetically. I can order them by kind in the actual Favourites folder in the finder, but not in the dock.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks.

Only way I know is to manually move it along the dock. You can use dividers to keep them more organized.

No, I don't mean I want to re-order the items on the Dock... I have a folder on the right side of the Dock, next to the Trash. This is a shortcut to the Favourites folder from my Library, to which I've dragged shortcuts to a number of files/folders.

If I right-click on this Dock folder, a pop-up list appears from which I can open the files/folders within it. What I want to do, is order the items in the docked Favourites shortcut folder pop-up list.

Yeah, I just tried it and see what you mean. I even made an alias of my applications folder and arranged it the way I wanted, but you drag it to the dock it goes back to by Alphabet. Once the folder is in the Dock I see no way to re-arange it the way you want to. If I find something I will report back.

If they are all aliases then you could number them in the desired order, ex. instead of "somefile.doc alias" you could change it to "1 somefile". I would recommend using aliases with this method as you would not need to rename the file itself. I know this probably isn't the way you want to do it but it doesn't sound like there is any other way to do it.

Thanks for the suggestion, michaelstumpf - that works a treat.

What kind of aeroplane is that?

MartinS said:

Thanks for the suggestion, michaelstumpf - that works a treat.

What kind of aeroplane is that?

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You're quite welcome. As for the plane, its a Pilatus PC-12.