I had a problem a bit like this.. I am speaking from memory but I found that
when I set the arrange by button in view preferences to none and the sort order
to name the problem resolved itself. I do not quite still understand the
difference between arrange and sort but this worked for me.
David Griffith
[email protected]
On 6 Oct 2011, at 18:15, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> Hello,
> I am running Lion 10.7.1. For a long time I have been using Finder in column
> view with arrange by name. this has always behaved as expected.
>
> Today some of my files and folders are not being displayed in the correct
> sort order. The display order seems pretty random and certainly not sorted by
> name. If I change to icon view or list view or cover flow view then they do
> display in the correct sort order. There just seems to be a problem with
> column view particularly in folders which contain a lot of files.
>
> Any ideas on anything I might have done to cause this, or is it an obscure
> Lion bug? I have tried rebooting a few times and cleaning up disk permissions
> using Cocktail but all to no effect.
> Best regards....
>
> Paul Hopewell
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