Finder file sort order is reversed (z a), can it be changed

"all my files" shows reversed alphabetical sorting. can you change it to a->z? there is no little widget available like in other search ares of finder such as pictures,music, applications

The column headers don't appear when you have an Arrangement set. Set the Arrangement to None, go to List View, set the sort as you'd like, then set up the Arrangement as you wish.
Arrangement options are displayed in the menu or button when no modifier key is pressed. Sort options show up in both places if you hold down the Option (alt) key when you select the menu or button.
Arrangement Options:
Sort Options:
List View with an Arrangement:
List View with Arrangement "None":

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In Finder, when using icon view, the "arrange by">"date modified" order has reversed. I can't find any settings to change it back.
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Try deleting this file.
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I quite often add a suffix to some of my file names when I save them so that I can keep a complete history of changes. For example, I usually add "_000" at the end, and progress to "_001" through "_009". However after "_009" I don't increase the next digit to "_010" but instead, after "_009" comes "_00A" then "_00B" on to "_00Z" and then to "_010". I have been doing this for a while now (several years) and it has worked well for me.
I have noticed in the finder window, when in "List" view a file ending in "_00A" is listed lexicographically before a file ending in "009" instead of the other way around.
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I don't know of a GUI way to change it or if you unix trick will work/do anything, but the Mac OS has always sorted that way, if I'm understanding you correctly. It looks at the entirety of the naming and puts 2 immediately after 1 instead of putting 10 there like Windows does (and Alpha comes before numeric).
I don't think the unix underpinnings changed sort order, but I may be remembering wrong. It's been a long time since OS 9. That's why I don't think the LANG switch will work.

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I've imported a number of old scanned family photos into Lightroom 2.7 running on Windows XP. There is no metadata except the scan date, so I sort by file name.
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