Solved Has Microsoft Removed the Ability to Sort By Contents of Folders in Libraries?

I just recently upgraded to Win11 and now I notice, it seems, Microsoft has removed the ability to sort by (or group by, or view by) contents of folders in Libraries. You can still group by (and sort by, and view by) nearly everything else under the sun by right-clicking and choosing 'More', but, alas, not by 'Folder contents'.

I have tried all the different template styles (General items, Documents, Music, etc.) and none of them has this feature (that was included in all previous versions of Windows, to my knowledge).

Has someone created a work-around for this?

(I can't say that I spent hours searching the forum for answers first, but I spent some time and didn't see a thread on this subject. Please excuse me if I missed it.)

Would content type suffice?

Welcome to the forum. See if this video helps.

Thank you. Upon further investigation I discovered the 'Show More Options' option when right-clicking, which brought back the 'Arrange by' option, which provided the desired sorting. Kind of ashamed I missed something so obvious.

Michael33 said:

Kind of ashamed I missed something so obvious.

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Nah. I spent an hour looking for my glasses last week, was getting really annoyed, blaming family for moving them. They were on my head. What is obvious isn’t always obvious.