Question :
I must have messed something up, but I can’t figure out how to get the original setting back… whenever I open a new finder window, the files are listed in the order of the date added, but I generally I don’t want that, as it’s usually easier to find files and folders when they’re alphabetically ordered by name… I have tried the switching the file arrangement setting (the Line-3squares-Line-3squares icon) to ‘Name’ but that doesn’t do the trick, and neither does setting it to something else and then setting it back to ‘Name’…

What can I do to fix this ?


Answer :
The soloution is simple, but it’s not in the place where you are looking.
What you are setting with the ‘file arrangement’ setting (the Line-3quuares-Line-3squares icon) is just the ‘chapterization’ of the files, so the ‘grouping’ or whatever you want to call it…

The solution to your porblems is in the ‘More’ setting (the ‘3 dots in a circle’ icon) :
– open a new finder window
– in the top bar of that Finder window, click on the ‘More’ button (the ‘3 dots in a circle’ icon)
– in the pulldown menu that appears, click on ‘Group By’
– in the second pulldown menu that appears, click on ‘Name’
…now the files wil be listed in alphabetical order

That’s it !

enjoy 😉