I open the folder, everything is sorta by name, and a second or two later (or longer), it re-sorts by date. Why? Any way to fix that? I want my folders on top and the files sorted by date, and for it ...

Windows File Explorer offers various tools to help users organize their files and folders, but sorting folders by size can be particularly challenging due to the limitations of the native File ...

There are many ways to organize files in folders within Finder, but possibly one of the handiest is to sort files by the application that will open them. AppleInsider shows how to enable this Finder ...

I teach high school digital photography in a computer lab setting. We have used winxp in the past but recently updated to win7 64bit. In the past, files would appear in a folder with the last file ...

If File Explorer’s Sort by Date Modified is not working correctly on your Windows 11 PC, read this post. We will guide you through some effective troubleshooting steps to quickly resolve the issue.

The other day I was organizing a set of photos I wanted to show to some friends as a slideshow. I’d sorted the images in OneDrive on my Windows 8.1 PC and then planned to display them on my Nexus 7.

When grouped by date, all the files and folders are separated into user-friendly dates. For example, if you downloaded a file today, it will be grouped under the Today section. Files downloaded last ...

Emily O’Brien writes in with a question that many people share, but may be afraid to ask: I have several folders in Finder, but I can find no way of keeping them in alphabetical order. They move ...

If you have to collect a number of files in the same folder, but want to title them in a more orderly fashion, you need to learn how to master renaming files in macOS. Sometimes, if you are putting ...

Over on the iPhone, file management duties are handled by the Files app developed by Apple. There are three main tabs here to navigate between: Recents (recently created or edited files), Shared ...

The following article is excerpted from Windows Vista: The Missing Manual with permission of O’Reilly Media Inc. Until Vista came along, you could sort the files in a window into an alphabetical or ...