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type="topic" style="task"
id="files-sort">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="files#common-file-tasks"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.6.0" version="0.2" date="2012-09-25" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-09-22" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-29" status="final"/>
<revision version="gnome:45" date="2024-03-04" status="final"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Phil Bull</name>
<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="author">
<name>Jim Campbell</name>
<email>jwcampbell@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>Arrange files by name, size, type, or when they were changed.</desc>
</info>
<title>Sort files and folders</title>
<comment>
<p>May benefit from figures illustrating the different views.</p>
</comment>
<p>You can sort files in different ways in a folder, for example by sorting them
in order of date or file size. See <link xref="#ways"/> below for a list of
common ways to sort files. See <link xref="nautilus-views"/> for information on
how to change the default sort order.</p>
<p>The way that you can sort files depends on the <em>folder view</em> that you
are using. You can change the current view using the list/grid button in the
toolbar.</p>
<section id="icon-view">
<title>Grid view</title>
<p>To sort files in a different order, click the view options button in the
toolbar and choose <gui>A-Z</gui>, <gui>Z-A</gui>, <gui>Last Modified</gui>,
<gui>First Modified</gui>, <gui>Size</gui>, or <gui>Type</gui>.</p>
<p>As an example, if you select <gui>A-Z</gui>, the files will be sorted
by their names, in alphabetical order. See <link xref="#ways"/> for other
options.</p>
</section>
<section id="list-view">
<title>List view</title>
<p>To sort files in a different order, click one of the column headings in
the file manager. For example, click <gui>Type</gui> to sort by file type.
Click the column heading again to sort in the reverse order.</p>
<p>For more sort options, click the view options button in the toolbar.</p>
<p>In list view, you can show columns with more attributes and sort on those
columns. Click the view options button in the toolbar, pick <gui>Visible
Columns…</gui> and select the columns that you want to be visible. You will
then be able to sort by those columns. See <link xref="nautilus-list"/> for
descriptions of available columns.</p>
</section>
<section id="ways">
<title>Ways of sorting files</title>
<terms>
<item>
<title>A-Z</title>
<p>Sorts alphabetically by the name of the file.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Z-A</title>
<p>Sorts alphabetically by the name of the file in reverse order.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Last Modified</title>
<p>Sorts by the date and time that a file was last changed. Sorts from
oldest to newest.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>First Modified</title>
<p>Sorts by the date and time that a file was last changed. Sorts from
newest to oldest.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Size</title>
<p>Sorts by the size of the file (how much disk space it takes up). Sorts
from smallest to largest by default.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title>Type</title>
<p>Sorts alphabetically by the file type. Files of the same type are
grouped together, then sorted by name.</p>
</item>
</terms>
</section>
</page>
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