Topic       : Documentation for Thing
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View Ref-FileDisplay - Sort order                                                  Thing

The six menu options:

Reverse Order
By Name
By Size
By Date
By Extension
Unsorted

determine the order in which files are displayed in the currently topped 
directory window. Other open windows are not affected. The 'Reverse Order' 
option sorts files and folders separately into reverse order. The 
'Unsorted' option shows the order the files and folders are stored on the 
disk.

Irrespective of the sort mode folders are always listed before files.