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I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and I seem to be missing one bit of functionality that I used all the time in Finder. I could press Command+Shift+F and search for files by file name. Now pressing Command+Shift+F takes me to the "all my files" folder.
Did they reassign the keyboard shortcut for search by file name?
The InfoPlist.strings file you mention is a binary formatted property list. You can convert and edit these files with developer tools such as plutil.
The following article walks through the steps required, Show folders last in Finder.
The files are not "distorted"; they just are not arranged in rows. When you have the files in icon view, you can arrange them however you like.
If you want to have a particular window arranged by name, you can press ⌘J to bring up the inspector pane, then select the criteria you want to "sort by"
Best Answer
The keyboard shortcut was changed to ⌃⌘F.
If you open a window with ⌃⌘F, there is no indication in the UI that Finder is matching only filenames other than that the "Name matches" item in the suggestion list is selected:
Finder should only match filenames even if you don't press return though.