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 ...

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 download a lot of documents, pictures, music, and photos every day, you will end up having a lot of files in your Downloads folders and you may have to manually move or sort these files to the ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

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 ...

The easiest method to sort folders by size in your Windows File Explorer is as follows: If you wish to change the order of the size from ascending to descending and vice-versa, then while in the ...

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 you’re coming over to macOS from Windows, or you just plain prefer how Windows sorts files with the folders on top and files below, then How-To Geek points to a little setting that allows you to ...

The Finder in OS X El Capitan has four ways to view your files: icon view, list view, column view, and Cover Flow view. But it also gives you many ways to arrange files within those views. There are ...

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 ...

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 ...