How to arrange and sort files in Finder using Mac OS X Lion

I have a question. With Mac 10.4 I could search documents in Finder by comments. Now with 10.7 I am not able to do so: when opening view options I cannot check “comments” (nor “version”). Can anybody help? Thank you very much.

It’s really sad I had to spend time looking up this solution to Apple’s ongoing Finder design flubs. I appreciate your article, but really, can’t Apple do a better job with this essential application? Of all the woes associated with Microsoft Windows over their years — really, too many to mention — it at least never refused to sort files by name.

Yeah, the Mac is WAY to complicated. We should be able to just directly click on Name, Kind, whatever column is there and that will be the column by which things are sorted or arranged. An arrow up or down should appear, just like in Windows, making you toggle between ascending and descending. The Mac is really backward in this feature.

After being a PC user for years, sorting by a particular column was easy – just click on the title of the column. Click it once and it would sort ascending, click it again and it would sort descending. Seems cumbersome to have to click a menu to do something so simple.

Thank you so much for this, saves a lot of stress with organising my files!

Thanks very much for this it worked.
I was so angry with apple over this one I was set to by a Microsoft Windows machine.

I’ve been reading posts like these for years now: “OH NO!… Not another unnecessary Mac “improvement” Sound familiar? The ongoing frustration on display in posts like these from previously gung-ho Mac users must surely be sounding alarm bells somewhere inside the Mac organization… The simple truth is that a lot of Mac fans who have suddenly found that even the lowly but gloriously functional Mac method of sorting files has now become a time wasting nightmare. Don’t you get it, Mac? They have had enough of your microscopic “improvements”. Surely someone will notices that this is yet another clear indication of how Mac is ruthlessly and stupidly alienating it’s customer. Incessant, arbitrary and redundant changes to a system that was beautifully simple in concept, design and function, indicates only one thing: Mac now must have a vast stable of bored “developers” desperately trying to justify their existence. It’s the Pretzel approach…”yeah the pretzel is perfect, a time proven shape which works beautifully as tasty snack food, but let’s improve it anyway by adding a couple of new curves and a nasty new topping so we can keep our jobs… if people don’t like it, we’ll fix it again later” Sort of like mice nibbling away at the edges until no one will eat it. Result: user fury and Mac decline. Wake up… your public are going to dump you. In design, simple is always best. You are not immortal or invincible… no company is if it fails to listen to it’s customer base… That’s “BASE”… ie, the people at the bottom.. They are the source of you success… not the nerds and techno-freaks!