Organize your Folders via “Keep Arranged by” shortcut in OSX

We often like to have our folders arranged either by name or by kind or by date, but Mac’s right click(two-finger click) allows you only to arrange the files once. After that any new files you add just keep piling up at the end. There’s a neat trick to keep your folder arranged in a particular way. After the right click, just hold the OPTION key. It changes the ‘Arrange by’ to ‘Keep Arranged by’ and then you can choose how you want to keep your folder organized.

via Ankit Agarwal

Submitted on December 18, 2008 at 2:15 am - Organize your Folders via “Keep Arranged by” shortcut in OSX was written by Michael - There have been 4 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, Finder Tips

4 Responses to “Organize your Folders via “Keep Arranged by” shortcut in OSX”

Pilotbob

Is it just me or is there something wrong with this feed? I get each new post twice in my reader and also I get each existing post again every time there is a new post.

This happens in both feeddemon and netnewswire synced via Newsgator.

BOb December 18th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Jason

I found that "Keep Arranged by" only help to organize shortcuts on the desktop. How do I organize the files in other folders? December 24th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
encro

You can do this anywhere using cmd-j to bring up the view options. January 22nd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Tico125

Encro's tip is better than the original one... If you the Option + Right-click one, the setting will not work after you close the Finder window... March 9th, 2009 at 1:46 pm