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 ...

However, in late 2025, while searching for Windows tools to automate boring tasks, I came across DropIt, an open-source ...

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 ...

Several readers have inquired if photos inside a folder can be rearranged in a particular sequence. One woman said, “I dragged 100 photos into a folder in order of the dates on which they were taken.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For work reasons, I need to sort a tonne of files -=- primarily photos, but also video -- into various folders based on metadata like focal length, time-of-day etc. Hazel does this pretty well but ...

Reader Judy Agid asks very reasonably: I would like the Finder windows to allow me to always have folders on top and all files within the folders to be in alphabetical order. Is there any way to do ...