Safari sort not the same as finder

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When I pull up finder, files are sorted according to date:

But when I'm in Safari, and need to choose a file to upload, there's a bunch of files at the bottom of the picker that says "no date". This seems like a bug. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

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I haven't tested thoroughly yet, but the problem seems to happen for me when I leave Safari (11.1.2) open overnight. Quitting Safari and restarting it fixed the problem when I tried it today.

A similar bug has also been reported in Chrome ( https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=392754 ). In that case restarting Chrome fixed the problem.

It feels to me as though the code providing the document picker is caching today's date for some reason and using that to compare the "Date Added" metadata to. So it's more of an MacOS bug than a Safari bug.

Indeed if you look at the end of the thread here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3272875?start=45&tstart=0 there are several applications that show the same problem when left open overnight.

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If you don't mind using the terminal you could try this:

find . -type f -exec ls -lth {} +

This will list files from current directory and all directories below, sorted by modified date. A variant not listing modification date would be:

find . -type f -exec ls -t {} +

But I believe that it would be better to just list the files that have changed the last 1440 minutes

find . -mmin -1440

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When in finder, go to "view" in the menubar and then select "Show view options" (or something similar, or alternately just press cmd+J) When presented with the new window configure the options how you like them, and then press the "use as default", and now everything should be consistent.

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