Disable group by in Downloads folder (Windows 10 1903)

Hi Shafeeq_Khan,

I have the same problem that karolyszabohu has.  A few years ago I moved my default Download location to D:/MyDownloads, I followed the instructions per answer from Microsoft community, and it worked great until upgrade to 1903.  Every time I try to save a download, I use Firefox as my browser, the download folder opens grouped by date.  There is NO OPTION to view or change the grouping to none.  This is the only folder that acts this way, every other folder displays with no grouping.  Is there a solution you know of that will help, it's really confusing trying to find a folder to put a file in, when you don't know the last time it was accessed, then having to search thorough a long list, by date, to find the folder you need.

This is just plain stoopid! Yup, I spelled "stupid" wrong to emphasize it because it's a PITA. I have been using computers for 30 years, and I already have a very organized way to save things that I download. I organize them by what type of download it is, not what the EFFING date I downloaded it. I mean come on! Say you have a folder c:\downloads\authoring\wordpress\plugins and you want to save something there.  Well, gee, the last time I saved a plugin was like three months ago, so I have to look through all the "Earlier this year" and they're not even in EFFING alphabetical ORDER.  For Christ's sake, I have 33 folders off the root of Downloads and 919 folders in total.  Please stop fixing things that aren't broken!

Hi Chap Sistine,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

The Group by option in normal folders and in Save as window are different, so if you change the Group by to type in Downloads folder, it will not change in Save as window. Then, if you change the Group by in Save as window, it will not change in normal folders.

You can refer the below example.

Change the Group by as size in Downloads folder - Change the Group by as size in Save as window.

Change the Group by as type in Downloads folder - (Check) Group by as size in Save as window (it will not change until you right-click in Save as window and change it to type or anything else).

Also, the Group by option is specific to folders and once you change Group by for a particular folder, the changes will not be applied to all the folders. You need to change the Group by for every folder by opening that particular folder > Press the Alt and V > Click on G > Select the Group by settings or click on Choose columns for more options.

So, once you change the Group by in Save as window, it will remain the same regardless of whichever application you open the Save as window from.

Regards;

Mr. Khan your answer only lookup to Windows File Explorer and other functions of Windows but do not take in account other software's that had been affected by this "not understand why" change to a date default. I am using QDir as my File Explorer since I can have up to 4 screens at the same time and did not matter that I made the changes on the software to what I want (and was the options before this marvelous change) Group by "none" and Sort by Name it always came back to the new default. I have thousands of folders that took me years to organize in a way that make sense to my work and *Voila!*in a moment Microsoft scratch that organization.

Is there not possible that consider and maybe ask to customers before making this kind of changes. Who organize the files by date in this century (you always have options to sort them on the fly)?

Sincerely

Luis Marrero

You might also want to change the CSS in this forum so replies don't run into original posts.

This is just plain stoopid! Yup, I spelled "stupid" wrong to emphasize it because it's a PITA. I have been using computers for 30 years, and I already have a very organized way to save things that I download. I organize them by what type of download it is, not what the EFFING date I downloaded it. I mean come on! Say you have a folder c:\downloads\authoring\wordpress\plugins and you want to save something there.  Well, gee, the last time I saved a plugin was like three months ago, so I have to look through all the "Earlier this year" and they're not even in EFFING alphabetical ORDER.  For Christ's sake, I have 33 folders off the root of Downloads and 919 folders in total.  Please stop fixing things that aren't broken!

Hi Chap Sistine,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

The Group by option in normal folders and in Save as window are different, so if you change the Group by to type in Downloads folder, it will not change in Save as window. Then, if you change the Group by in Save as window, it will not change in normal folders.

You can refer the below example.

Change the Group by as size in Downloads folder - Change the Group by as size in Save as window.

Change the Group by as type in Downloads folder - (Check) Group by as size in Save as window (it will not change until you right-click in Save as window and change it to type or anything else).

Also, the Group by option is specific to folders and once you change Group by for a particular folder, the changes will not be applied to all the folders. You need to change the Group by for every folder by opening that particular folder > Press the Alt and V > Click on G > Select the Group by settings or click on Choose columns for more options.

So, once you change the Group by in Save as window, it will remain the same regardless of whichever application you open the Save as window from.