Yes, and what is most annoying is that the options to arrange files are useless for me!
Please bring back the ability to freely arrange icons within folders "DISABLE AUTO ARRANGE"!
I just want to "disable" confounding Auto Arrange files within folders in Windows 10. I can't understand that when you leave file/folder icons in the position and order that you want and then Windows decides to mix them up. I'm continually wasting time trying to find lost data. It's ridiculous. Does anyone know or can create something that just allows you to arrange or sort files within folders, and Leave them alone, without the OS messing them up?
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Anonymous
2023-11-29T09:37:35+00:00 -
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2023-11-29T04:55:27+00:00 Hi Europa, I just wanted to say thank you for starting this thread and saving me a lot of time in trying to fix this issue. I also vote for this to come back ASAP. I use this to sort photos into different sub-folders, and trying to do it when the folders are locked at the top, and I have to keep scrolling up to drag and drop is beyond frustrating. You definitely aren't alone.
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Anonymous
2023-09-06T19:32:14+00:00 Agreed. Whoever did this is incompetent. And this file arrange debacle is Not a feature! It's common sense to have your files stay where ever you put them. Unbelievably they already had this no brainer behavior. Why they would actively remove this is beyond all thinking. I reluctantly bought a Mac computer because of this and now use my Windows computer less and less now. I just can't take not finding or having files and folder stay exactly where you put them anymore. It's ludicrous and I'm tired of fighting it. Just doesn't make sense at all!
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Anonymous
2023-09-06T13:48:43+00:00 When the H is microsoft going to fix this screw up??? This is getting ridiculous you push us to keep going to the newer versions of your broken OS. At the same time you keep removing more and more features from the OS. Stop making it more "user friendly" by taking out useful features. In fact this doesn't even make it more "user friendly". I would like to know who the twit is at microsoft that comes up with these brain fart ideas. You are screwed if you need to rename a bunch of files in a folder because as you go down the list and rename them it automatically shoots files around the split second you hit the tab key. This is annoying, the file should stay where the hell it was unless I tell it to arrange.
You need to hire people with a brain and common sense, and not people that are trying to fill their annual job goals by removing useful features just to prove their "worth."
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Anonymous
2023-07-24T08:59:58+00:00 Another frustrated user here! If you've got a folder full of images and you just want to select a few for this and a few for that, being able to just drag the icons around a folder (into two separate corners of the folder, for example) and then change/swap them round if you want is incredibly useful. Seems insane that the ability to do this was removed,