I am sifting through some old picture files which were saved some years ago. They are somewhat organized in various subdirectories. I wish to look through them by file name. However, as I enter a subdirectory with caja I find that most subdirectories are sorted by the size column.

I have the sort order in the caja preferences set to "name." I have tried dconf-editor and gsettings. All seem to confirm that sort should be by name. If I change a given subdirectory to sort my name, leave it and return it stays sorted by name, It appears that a subidrectory by subdirectory preference is being saved SOMEWHERE.

I am running CentOS 7.6 with the Mate desktop environment from epel. caja is version 1.16.6. I suspect the same situation exists with nautilus as there does not seem to be much difference in caja.

Any ideas?

TIA,

Ken

Every file manager I've ever used has kept the sort sequence for a folder/directory as it was last set.
I've never bothered to look for where that was saved. When I enter a folder, if the sequence is not as I want it to be, I just click on the column title to make it so.

There is an option in Thunderbird to apply the sort sequence to all folders, but I don't recall seeing that in any file manager.

Thanks scasey,

I have a hundred or more subdirectories so this is a pain. Interestingly the data in on a FAT formatted partition in an old TrueCrypt volume. I copied the whole mess to an xfs formatted file system and some of the directories are in name order when I enter them but not all.) I do not think I would have ever sorted them by file size so I have no idea why that is the default. I finally threw in the towel and am using gnome-commander to do my file sifting. No problems now. The order is set to name and it stays that way.

Ken