Randomly placed icons in folder

Greetings
I got a problem with my folders. When I open for example my finder, my folders are all placed randomly. Sometimes there is like 1 icon on 1 line and on the line below there are 3.
I think I'm a little bit futher than all those people who say there icons/folders are messed up;
This problem started when I hided my invisible files. So first I entered that specific code to see invisibly files, then, I've hidden them again because there were too much files and it was a bit messy. So I'm pretty sure my icons/folders get placed randomly like that, because in the open spaces, there would be those files which are invisible again.
Does someone know how to fix this? It would be easier if apple gave us the option to arrange icons by visible and invisible;

Invisible files are invisible for a reason. It protects them from inadvertent damage by unknowledgeable users. The sort order, which is what you are dealing with is controled by invisible .DS-Store files, in each folder and can be different for each different folder view. You should be able to "fix" the display by going to the Finder menu > View. There you will find an option to
Clean up selection
Clean up by... and a list of options
Sort by... and a list of options including snap to grid
A few seconds time spent with these finder options should straighten out your problem -- for the one folder only. Unfortunately that will have to be repeated for each folder that has a .DSStore file. There are utilities such as Cocktail, OnyX, TinkerTool, TinkerTool System, and MacPilot that will drill down through all your folders and delete the .DS-Store files essentially allowing you to start over.

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