Finder

Hi.

I must admit that I much prefer Windows File Explorer over Finder, which I find very klunky.

I just wondered if, in Finder, I could arrange the sort order to folders first then files, as the File Explorer has them?

Cheers

Did you try arrange by "Kind" rather than by "Name"? That will put the folders on top and files below. There are third party apps that are more configurable and allow that as an option.

Path Finder has more options for viewing and sorting but it's not free. ($39.95)

Thanks, but the problem with sorting by kind is that it does just that, and the files then aren't in alphabetical order.

Cheers - I'll have a look at Path Finder

Have you tried clicking on the icon that looks like 6 square boxes with 2 horizontal lines? Click on this and then on kind.

For me this splits the Finder column into 2 horizontals - 1 for documents and 1 for folders. Both are then in alphabetical order within each.

Thanks Nickyr, but because I have mixed types (images, pdf, other) of files it shows several rows. I'm trying to just show the folders separately and then all file types together alphabetically, like File Explorer in Windows.

Do you have your windows set to Icon View, List View, or what?

babrees, there is no way to do what you want if you are in El Capitan. There used to be a product called Total Finder that had that option, but with the new security in El Cap, that product no longer works. If you aren't up to El Cap, you can use it for now, but sooner or later you'll need to upgrade and will lose it. The developer has stopped working on it because of the change in OS X.

I just change folder names to have a leading space, so they come to the top of the sort sequence.

toMACsh, it doesn't matter which view I'm in, but I use various views depending on what I'm doing

MacInWin, thanks! I am in El Capitan I thought that might be the case. Shame. Perhaps somebody will write an app identical to the Windows File Explorer! I live in hope ;D

verdi1901, thanks, good idea but with thousands of files just not practical.