Finder "browse..." window

Hi all, I am relatively new to the Mac platform, and I have a bit of a problem. I set my Finder view options to "columns" and the arrange to "by kind", but whenever the "browse..." window opens (e.g. "save to..." in mail, or "download linked file as..." in safari), my icons are still in columns. but they are arranged alphabetically rather by kind. Can someone help me out with this?

praveza wrote:
Hi all, I am relatively new to the Mac platform, and I have a bit of a problem. I set my Finder view options to "columns" and the arrange to "by kind", but whenever the "browse..." window opens (e.g. "save to..." in mail, or "download linked file as..." in safari), my icons are still in columns. but they are arranged alphabetically rather by kind. Can someone help me out with this?
In whichever view you select, click the little gear marked action and click on Show View Options, then click the top check box, "always open in xxx view" where xxx will be the current view. If the box is already checked for another view, uncheck it and then re-check it

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