In "FINDER" how to cluster Folders together within a folder

Within a Folder I have other folders and would like to see them all together at the top.
I have a lot of other unfoldered docs within this main folder.
I was a seeing all my subfolders clustered together at the top.
But then I clicked 'Name' at the columns very top and of course now everything is in A-Z, or Z-A, order and now all my subfolders are also A-Z and so scattered throughout the list and mixed in with my unfoldered docs.
I wouldst like to see them folders all at the top again.
I could do it wonce before, why not now.
yunowudamean?
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Unfortunately for folks like you who want this sort of thing, there's no way to do that. You can arrange by kind (View -> Arrange By -> Kind), which at least groups all the folders together, but generally somewhere in the middle, with different types of files similarly clustered above and below. You could also sort by label, but that would get to be a pain. (Note that anything without a label sorts to the top.) Nothing like the way Windows sorts folders to the top. (Personally, I hate that view in Windows, but that's just me...)
Edit: one other possibility, which I actually do use in one folder... put a space at the beginning of the folder names to make them sort to the top.

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