When grouped by date, all the files and folders are separated into user-friendly dates. For example, if you downloaded a file today, it will be grouped under the Today section. Files downloaded last ...

There are many ways to organize files in folders within Finder, but possibly one of the handiest is to sort files by the application that will open them. AppleInsider shows how to enable this Finder ...

If you’re coming over to macOS from Windows, or you just plain prefer how Windows sorts files with the folders on top and files below, then How-To Geek points to a little setting that allows you to ...

If you are looking to micro-manage your folders in Outlook, it is essential to organize them. You can alphabetically sort out the folders to make navigation quicker and more intuitive, especially when ...

Emily O’Brien writes in with a question that many people share, but may be afraid to ask: I have several folders in Finder, but I can find no way of keeping them in alphabetical order. They move ...

Is there a way to automatically sort a folder by filetype? I assume this would be the task of Applescript... I'm trying to setup folders so that they automaticaly send particular file types to certain ...

For work reasons, I need to sort a tonne of files -=- primarily photos, but also video -- into various folders based on metadata like focal length, time-of-day etc. Hazel does this pretty well but ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Dropbox is adding new automation features for your files and folders in a bid to remove the hassle of organizing them by hand. Typically, when you create a folder and add files to it, the onus is on ...

On the Mac, you probably know all the tricks for sorting things in the Finder. You can choose icon, list and column views. And you can sort the files and folders in those windows by various dates ...