Loading ...Once every so often something bugs me enough to look up and here is today’s bugger! Sorting files and folders in Mac’s Finder by type, folders first!
In essence:
1. Select Finder, click on Go from the menu bar and select Go to Folder
2. From the dialog box that opens, type:
/System/Library/CoreServices/
and press Return
3. Locate Finder application, right click on it, and select Show Package Contents
4. Navigate to Contents>Resources>English.lproj and open InfoPlist.strings in a text editor
5. Navigate to the line which says
“Folder” = “Folder”;
at around line 7 of the file, and simply add an empty space or a symbol (such as “.” or “~”) in front of the second “Folder”.
6. Save the text file, type in the Administrator password when asked, and close the text file.
7. The final step would be to restart finder, which you can achieve by holding in the ALT or OPTION key and right clicking on the Finder icon in Dock, then selecting Relaunch.
Full detailed tutorial can be found here: thanks to “Budding”
I tried this but wasn’t able to implement it because Finder said I didn’t have rights to change the string file. This is my own private computer and no one else has access to it. I unlocked the info on Finder and tried to adapt the rights but to no avail.
I wish people would stop posting this bullshit “how-to”. It doesn’t work.
The point is to get Finder to sort PROPERLY, which means by NAME alphabetically, but with folders at the top. The method described here does not do that. It puts folders at the top when you tell Finder to sort by KIND. But then the overall list order is not alphabetical, and thus is useless.
I had find indirect way to do the exact correct output with name sorted alphabetically.
I used the Automator, check it:
http://www.quora.com/OS-X/How-can-I-make-folders-always-on-top-on-Mac-Finder-WITHOUT-arrange-by-kind/