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Is it possible to change the way folder content is organised to show in vertical columns?
When viewing content by icon macOS Sierra seems to automatically sort in vertical rows from left to right. There don't seem to any options to change this in 'View Options'. Organising content vertically seems particularly confusing when viewing larger number of files.
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The Launchpad database is located at ~/Library/Application Support/Dock/*some-hex-name*.db
To edit it, you'll have to use SQLite. You can do this on the command line, or with a graphic interface.
See this Ask Different question for recommendations for a GUI app.
On macOS Sierra and newer the old launchpad database does not exists anymore. Instead every user has his personal launchpad database somewhere inside /private/var/folders (contains a lot of cryptic names).
The personal database is owned by you user, so you can use the following command to find out the path of the database:
echo $(find /private/var/folders -user $(id -u) -name com.apple.dock.launchpad 2> /dev/null)/db/db
After you have the path to the new database, you can continue to edit it like before (e.g. using sqlite3 command).
Thanks to Chris Perry from Jamf Nation for sharing what he found! See his post here.
Snow Leopard had a funny way of arranging and organizing Finder views. But we got used to them; however, that doesn't mean they were even remotely intuitive. Lion builds on this confusing and awkward system, changing things up again.
You can see in the image above that there are now two separate options that pertain to the Finder view settings:
The first applies to the current directory (in this case my Downloads folder will always present my icons in Icon View, at a size of 48x48, etc.), while the second applies to all child (or sub-) folders. However, and this is what most people are stumbling over, the "Browse in ... view" is overridden by that folders "Always open in ... view."
Let's run through an example:
You have a folder called Downloads. And in that folder you have another folder called PDFs. You apply both of the above settings to Downloads folder. Now you open the PDFs folder and apple "Always open in list view." You close Finder and open a new window. Navigating to your Downloads folder, will show all its contents as icons, while navigating to the PDFs folder, will show a list view. So now you have the parent folder (Downloads) with both settings enabled, but when you open the child folder (PDFs), it opens in list view.
If you understand the behaviour, it makes sense, but if it's lost on you (trust me, it is on a lot of users as it is far from being an intuitive system), then you'd be scratching your head why both the options are checked, but PDFs opens in list view.
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The only way I currently know how to do this is to change the icons so that they are bigger. You will not, however, get the files in two columns.