How to Stop File Explorer Sorting by Week and Month

Anonymous
2019-07-26T21:53:02+00:00

After the recent update Windows file explorer is now grouping items by day, week and month. I do not want this. I want the old way back please. How do I get rid of this new sorting? I hope this is not going to be like what happened to media folders where they now display metadata columns instead of name, date, size, type and even if you change them the next time you open the folder it has reverted back to metadata columns.

Update: I worked out that Group By must be set to none. How do I make this default so it doesn't revert back? I'd also like to stop my media folders reverting back to the old way too so they show name, date, size, type instead of Artist, Album, Title etc

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Anonymous
2019-09-05T03:31:56+00:00

There is no bug.  Someone at Microsoft just managed to apply their default folder setting to everyone that installs the update.

To turn off file grouping feature:

  1. Open a folder that is Grouping by/sorting using week and month.
  2. Right Click in the folder
  3. Select 'Group by'
  4. Select '(None)'

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-09-05T02:49:20+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-07-27T23:00:21+00:00

    When the folder's view is set to your liking, click the View ribbon, select Folder Options. On the View tab in the Folder Options dialog, click Apply to folders. 

    Keith

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  3. DaveM121 933.5K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-07-27T09:36:11+00:00

    Hi Screentan

    This is a known bug in Windows 10 version 1903, where folders are automatically reverting to Group By - Date, many many users have reported this recently

    Microsoft are aware of this issue and will hopefully release a patch for this shortly, until then there is no reported fix that works to resolve this, so we need to wait on Microsoft to resolve this . . .

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-07-26T22:13:21+00:00

    Hello and thank you for contacting us. My name is Angelo and I am an Independent Adviser on here.

    Do a right click in the folder as you can see in my screenshot, you can sort and view them as you want.

    Regards

    Angelo

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