Automatically clean up folder icons

I have been copying over some photos over to my iMac. These were in quite a lot of folders. I like to have my folders arranged tidily. After the copying had finished, the folders were a bit untidy, and I cleaned them up by using the below keyboard shortcut.
I know I can use the keyboard short cut, option, cmd, 1. But I wondered if there was some setting that I'd overlooked that could keep all my folders arranged tidily automatically, without the need for me to do the keyboard shortcut?

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