I open the folder, everything is sorta by name, and a second or two later (or longer), it re-sorts by date. Why? Any way to fix that? I want my folders on top and the files sorted by date, and for it ...

If you have a folder containing countless files of different formats, you can follow this guide to sort Files by Extensions into a separate Folder in Windows 11/10. No third-party app is needed since ...

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I think this is exactly how Mac OS works too, except for the thing I mentioned about sorting. The big difference is that if you want to use the keyboard, there is CMD+o to open files in Mac OS, ...