Solved "Sort - Group By - None" how to fix it and keep it from adding itself to folders randomly

Okay I have changed the Sort By to none before and I noticed a few weeks ago it some how came back. But I can't figure it out. I go to "Downloads" and look for the sort by none and it is not there. I go into the folder inside downloads called "TV Show Name" and the downloads are organized by date.

So here is the issue:
(1) I use a renamer program to rename the episodes for each season.
(2) I first download all the episodes from season 1 and then rename them like this "TV Show Name (2005) - 01x01 - "Episodes Name".mp4" and then there is the "Date Modified" and "Type" as well as "Size". So the date goes by the date it first airs I think so the dates are all over the place.
(3) If I open the season 1 I see a checkbox next to name which I setup with the checkbox and then under that I see ""A long time ago" drop down that can close and open.

So here is what I have done to try and fix this:
(1) I select all of the files all at once and click on "Sort>Group By>None and then the "A Long Time Ago" disappears but only for season 1.
(2) So I went back to the main folder "Downloads" and None is not listed for the downloads area. So then I went back to season 1 and it was fine I went to "TV Show Name" and went and selected none. And then the "A Long Time Ago" was removed from there as well." But its still showing up in "Season 2" to "Season 7" my currently worked on season.

How do I fix it so that it stops showing up all together or is it even possible to stop it.

Apply Folder View to All Folders in Windows 11 Tutorial found this after a little digging around. I needed to click apply to all folders not just the apply button.

dawn121988 said:

Apply Folder View to All Folders in Windows 11 Tutorial found this after a little digging around. I needed to click apply to all folders not just the apply button.

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File explorer can be quite frustrating. I kept setting my download folder to sort to NONE because it was sorting files by date. It never clicked, it kept changing back to sort by date, then one day it just stopped doing it. It only happens occasionally now,
A lot of threads in here about File Explorer sort issues.
Glad you sorted it out.

antspants said:

File explorer can be quite frustrating. I kept setting my download folder to sort to NONE because it was sorting files by date. It never clicked, it kept changing back to sort by date, then one day it just stopped doing it. It only happens occasionally now,
A lot of threads in here about File Explorer sort issues.
Glad you sorted it out.

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Sometimes I think File Explorer has a mind of its own. It does what it wants when it wants. On my video folders I want the files to be shown in list view. For reason that is beyond me, sometimes they will be shown in medium icon view.

That's what this is for:


See this discussion:

Completely disable file grouping, always, everywhere, in all windows, dialogs, everything!