Opening files--files not in alphabetical order.

Suddenly when opening files, the files are not sorted out in alphabetical order; I don't have a clue how this happened.

Did you check that the Name column in the file picker has a arrow to indicate sorting by name?

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  • Finder files always in reverse alphabetical order in List View

    Hi all,
    Ever since I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, I've experienced an intermittent quirk with Finder. I generally keep most files in folders by alphabetical order. But in my Applications folder, Finder is stuck on keeping them in reverse alphabetical order, which is annoying. I've never had this issue in previous releases of OS X becuase there was always the small triangle to invert order, but this triangle doesn't appear in my Applications folder. Only my Applications folder has a weird white bar with Name, Size, etc, as opposed to the gray one that appears in every other folder in the OS.
    I have tried to remedy this via the following:
    Changing from List View to other views--this puts them in normal alpha order, but I like apps in List View so I can see many of them at a glance
    Sorting by other categories (file size, etc.) and then switching back
    Clicking on the name bar with every possible combination of buttons (Fn + click, Ctrl + click, etc.)
    All to no avail. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? It only happens with the Applications folder, and only in List View.
    Thanks!

    I also have this problem, and the work around works for me, but...
    This has got to be a bug, right?  There is nothing, anywhere that I can see, that controls whether it is alpha ascending or alpha descending.  The "fix", such as it is, is to ignore the Arrange By menu and use the column headers to select the sort order. 
    In fact, to bulletproof it (because I will forget eventually) the best solution would be to remove the "arrange" menu altogether because it does not do anything that sorting by column headers does not do.  In fact, it does less.  In even more fact, it does worse than less. 
    Apple is keenly persuing minimalism.  So why does the arrange menu exist?  And if it does exist, why did no-one test that it works rationally?
    The corollary of all this is that the Arrange By menu does the same thing as clicking the menu headers, but when you use it, it disables them. 
    I have been banging my head on my desk since I bought my new machine with Mt Lion on it about the wretched headers not setting the sort order and it is because some - numbskull is not the _only_ word that comes to mind - has decided one selection mechanism for the sort function should disable the other. ¿Eh?

  • Folders and images not in alphabetical order

    hello.
    any idea why all of a sudden all my images and folders are not in alphabetical order.
    everytime you re-name or add a file to photoshop it detects and goes in order.
    now ive got to search to see where that file is.
    thanks.
    phil.

    I suddenly started having the same problem.  Have you resolved the issue yet?  I will attempt to add 2 screenshots of what is happening.
    This is what my image folder looks like in Windows Explorer.
    This what I see when I try to open a file in Photoshop.
    I hope you can see that in Windows Explorer the files are sequential but in the Photoshop "open" dialogue box they are all mixed up.
    I am using Photoshop CS5 on a Windows 7 machine.  This is happening in both the x32 and x64 bit versions of Photoshop.
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  • I have transferred my iTunes library from windows 7 pc to new windows 8 pc. Music was in alphabetical order by surname but new pc has some by surname some by first name and some not in alphabetical order. How can I get sorted?

    Question  Hi - I've transferred my iTunes library from windows 7 pc to one with windows 8. My library was in alphabetical order by surname but after transfer is now some by surname, some by first name, and some not in alphabetical order. How do I sort this out and also make sure that new downloads list by surname alphabetically?  

    Sorting in iTunes is often controlled by selecting different column headings. The sort order for any given column may be further modified by a sort value, e.g. Sort Artist affects the sort order of Artist. If you transferred the library properly all of the metadata should have remained intract and you simply need to select the a column that sorts as you want. If you had to import the library then there is the potential for tagging effects that could mean metadata entered previously didn't import with the media. Note that iTunes has no mechanism for automatically deciding which values are in <Forename> <Surname> order and could therefore be sorted as <Surname> <Forename>. The only automatic process drops leading articles (a/an/the) so that "The Doors" sort under D as "Doors".
    See also Grouping tracks into albums.
    tt2

  • I want to make a CD that is NOT in alphabetical order, not in artist alphabetical order and not in album alphabetical order... I want to make it the order I want.  Can this be done? How?  thanks in advance for all your help.  Mona

    I want to make a CD that is NOT in alphabetical order, not in artist alphabetical order and not in album alphabetical order... I want to make it the order I want.  Can this be done? How?  thanks in advance for all your help.  Mona

    cjam732 wrote:
    Ed - by sequence of numbers, are you talking about the rectangle with the arrow that sorts by track number?  I've tried to follow your directions to Mona but my playlist still gets burned to CD in alpha order.  driving me crazy.  any other suggestions?   thanks, Chris
    Chris, The sequence number is the first column of numbers, to the left of the Name column.  It always goes 1, 2,3  etc.  It is not the same as the Track Number, which has its own column.
    As a precaution before burning, make sure that Shuffle is tunred off, and that you right-click the playlist name and choose 'Copy to Play Order"  (although technically they should not affect the burn).

  • I created four (4) similar two (2) page file tables as an inventory of the contents of four (4) file crates full of LP vinyl record albums. How can these four (4) files be merged into a single file, then arranged in alphabetical order (by artist)?

    I am using "pages" version 5.5 (2109) as updated in its newest version after installing Yosemite OS X 10.10 on my 21.5 inch Mac desktop computer. When I printing the second file as a two sided document on a single sheet of paper, it only printed the first side. I looked at the copy of the file on my screen, and saw that the second page was also blank on my screen. I opened the original locked version of the 68 row, 4 column table, and found that both pages, 34 rows on each page, were intact, but when I saved it again, locked it, and reopened a duplicate copy, the second page again was not there. I ended up printing a copy of the original file, but I am nit able to save more than one page of the two page original. I would like to do this so I can edit the list without altering the original.                                                 I would eventually like to merge all four tables into one document, than arrange the entire merged file in alphabetical order. I would like to do this and have not been able to. This was the original question I had before I lost the second page of the second file table.

    In general theory, one now has the Edit button for their posts, until someone/anyone Replies to it. I've had Edit available for weeks, as opposed to the old forum's ~ 30 mins.
    That, however, is in theory. I've posted, and immediately seen something that needed editing, only to find NO Replies, yet the Edit button is no longer available, only seconds later. Still, in that same thread, I'd have the Edit button from older posts, to which there had also been no Replies even after several days/weeks. Found one that had to be over a month old, and Edit was still there.
    Do not know the why/how of this behavior. At first, I thought that maybe there WAS a Reply, that "ate" my Edit button, but had not Refreshed on my screen. Refresh still showed no Replies, just no Edit either. In those cases, I just Reply and mention the [Edit].
    Also, it seems that the buttons get very scrambled at times, and Refresh does not always clear that up. I end up clicking where I "think" the right button should be and hope for the best. Seems that when the buttons do bunch up they can appear at random around the page, often three atop one another, and maybe one way the heck out in left-field.
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  • Smart playlists are not in alphabetical order on iOS 5.1 devices

    One of the most frustrating things for me about iTunes Match is the fact that the smart playlists in iTunes (version 10.6) do not sync in alphabetical order on my iPad/iPhone running iOS 5.1.
    Even though I click on the Name column and the songs in iTunes appear in alphabetical order, the songs appear in a random order on the iPad. I spent hours trying to fix this by turning iTunes Match off on my iPad, turning it on etc all to no avail. I created new smart playlists thinking that maybe the original smart playlists were corrupted in some way by the upgrade to the latest version of iTunes. This did not work either.
    Then, I had an idea. I created a new playlist (not a smart one), called it Test Alpha, copied the songs from the smart playlist into it and waited for my iPad to update.
    Voila! The songs in this new, non-smart playlist are in alphabetical order.
    I do hope that this problem is fixed. It is a pain to do this for the 15 odd smart playlist I have. Hope this helps someone else.

    No. And the problem persists in iOS 6 with the latest version of iTunes.
    For three weeks, I had been talking on and off with a techie in Singapore. She got me to run all these test, send screen shots etc..
    In the end, I was told that the engineers said 'that is how it's supposed to be'. Well, thank you very much. No help at all. No further discussion about the issue ensued.
    Apple's arrogance will soon be the cause of its share price collapsing. My solution? I have not renewed my subscription to iTunes Match.

  • HT4191 how can i sort my iphone notes in alphabetical order?

    I synced my MS Outlook notes through iTunes onto my iPhone 4S.  The notes were in alphabetical order on my computer, but now they are in creation date order on the iPhone, making them almost useless (the notes contain subject-based information).  Is there any way I can sort them into alphabetical order?  Settings does not seem to have this ability.  Alternatively, is there an app I can get that will offer sort options/functionality for my notes on the iPhone?  Thank you all!

    I played with "Reminders" app. It allows sorting (as you do for aligning cities in your weather app).  And u have the option to choose a time to be notified/reminded to view it. Reminders have titles, then u can list related items under ea title as sub topics; these subs can later be moved to a NEW "title" if you need to subdivide (e.g., if a title is "To Do" but your list gets long and you want to break down the To Do list into "Shop" &amp; "Chores"). This is done by tapping "details" then "list" when you're on the To Do page.

  • On Win7 with Acrobat 10.1.3.23 List of Printers not in Alphabetical Order

    We are moving from Windows XP to a new Windows 7 load at work and one of the things we have discovered in testing is that the list of 10-20 printers everyone has access to print to, is not in any order what so ever.  It does focus on the Default Printer first and places that at the top of the list but all the other printer objects are all mixed up.  Is this bug with this version of Acrobat and/or is their a reg. hack that can be implimented to fix this?
    Here is a sample of what I see when I go to print and want to print to somewhere else other than my default printer:
    Thanks ahead of time for any assistance on this issue.
    Tiernan

    Adobe is displaying the list in the order that the printers were installed on that machine.  It must be a glitch with the way Adobe displays the list of printers.  You could fix it by uninstalling all the printers (locally) and then re-installing in alphabetical order..

  • 80g Classic: Cover Flow Not In Alphabetical Order

    Actually, most of it is in alphabetical order. But I have an album by "Mandalay" that shows up last (yup, after the "Z" artists) when in cover flow. Also an album by "Ohgr" shows up twice, both with the complete set of songs (1st instance is correct alphabetically, but shows up a 2nd instance way towards the end in cover flow). Plus a couple other artists with the same "alphabetically-challenged" metadata. I've typed and re-typed every single meta-data and tags several times to no avail. I've even deleted them then put them back but the issue persists. Anyone have any idea?

    The albums that come up last are probably marked as compilations.
    See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp
    tt2

  • When I look for a website to go to the addresses I put in are shown in a drop down menu but they are not in alphabetic order, how do I sort it permanantly?

    I have set Googleas my homepage when I look for a webaddress the drop menu displays the sites however they never stay in alphabetic order, how can I set it so that this happens?

    See this link - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_and_rearranging_bookmarks_-_Firefox

  • Can get sort by file name not by added order?

    When I import, LR for some reasons seems to always default the sort to added order, not filename. Its a real nuisance, anything I can do. thanks!

    Ok, found view toolbar, funny, I don't even see the toolbar, what is it. what does it show?  I doubt it's relevant to this conversation...?
    Cornelia, thanks. ok, so the default is previous import. Can I get LR to default to Folders?
    Ok, so you are like me, if you want capture time as your sory then you have to remember to manually then click the folder name? But still even with the folder name selected LR chooses added order, not what I want.

  • HT4191 Can I sort my notes in alphabetical order?

    Can notes be sorted alphabetically or numerically and if so how?

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  • My email folders are not in alphabetical order like they appear on my email server and my phone.  Sup with that?

    After a certain date, any folder that I create is now appearing at the bottom of my folder list.  The second section of folders is alphabatized, but they appear at the end of the previous folders that are alphabatized.  Anyone else experience this?

    Care to share which OS, email client & versions you are using?
    iOS is for mobile devices. 

  • When I save a download, the SAVE TO window is no longer alphabetical (ever since last update). Now the window shows files/folders in Last-Used order. How can I change that preference??

    When prompted if I want to open or save a download, I choose SAVE and the usual window opens where I can choose a folder to save the download. After the last Firefox update, that SAVE window now displays all folders NOT in alphabetical order, but in Least Used to Most Recently Used order. Why??

    Hi Brett555,
    We wonder if there is any luck your issue has been resolved, if you've found solution by yourself. We would appreciate it if you could share with us and we will mark it as answer.
    I am supposing you have this issue when you try to save files every time not just in office. Since It is possibly that this issue caused by certain software installation, as arnavsharma mentioned that please check your issue under safe mode.
    If this issue persists, try creating a new user account and check if the issue persists there.
    If it works in a new user account then you need to fix the corrupt user profile. You may visit this link for the steps:
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/Windows7/Fix-a-corrupted-user-profile
    If this issue happened recently, please check any action you took or restore your system to earlier point.
    Regards
    D. Wu
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