Windows 10: Explorer will not remember sorting for specific fields

I have a folder that contains all music, when I sort by either Genre or Artist, it will immediately forget the sorting once I click out of the folder. Other fields it will remember, such as length, size and date modified. It's incredibly frustrating. Any ideas?

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Sorting with File Explorer.

I tried the method that was complicated (3rd option) but fell over in second step as I could not find any "apply to folder button"'.

However, the simple put *.* in search bar, then sort results windows by date does the trick. It is slightly cumbersome as I have to do that each time I am selecting files (to upload to sharepoint) but a lot less hassle than I was having to scroll up and down between sorted file block and sorted folder block.

Many thanks.

M.

 

Windows explorer can't remember sorting-by-author folder preference

I have a very specific problem. I want windows explorer to remember to sort files by author in my music folders. Every time I open the folder, windows explorer sort files alphabetically, even if I had previously set the folder to sort files by author (On
other computers, sorting files by author once makes the explorer remember it for that folder) . The weird thing is that everything in the folder preferences beside that is correctly saved, and windows explorer do remember the columns I set, the width of the
columns, and even any other sorting order I would set (sorting by file size, by album, by title, by date, etc ...) and correctly displays it when i open the folder again. For some reason, this problem only affects the author tab of my folders. I already searched
the web for a solution, but I can't find anyone with the exact same problem, in most cases the explorer is unable to remember any folder preference (and it resets everything including the width of the columns etc ... , which is not my case) . Anyway I tried
several of their solutions, including the "apply to folders" button in the folder's options, and editing register keys, but nothing worked.

I have no idea where this problem could come from, the PC I use is brand new, I bought it 1 week ago with windows 8, and updated it to windows 10 as soon as i could. I didn't have that problem on my previous PC which was on windows 7.

 

Sorting with File Explorer.

Hi,
Third answer here looks interesting:
Windows Explorer sorts files and folders separately - Super User

There are ways to do this with XYplorer
e.g.
File folder sorting order... - XYplorer Beta Club

I seem to recall a thread on this topic here before...

Also xplorer2
List alphabetically in Windows Explorer, with folders mixed with files? - Super User