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Bucic
Asked: 2012-02-10 03:46:42 +0800 CST

How to make some folders appear on the top in Nautilus?

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I'd like to have some folders on top e.g. on Windows I had _videos folder which would always appear on top. How do I achieve the same effect in case of Nautilus? It's rarely the case I'd need similar for files but if you know how to do it it also for some files, please drop your hint.

nautilus sort

2 Answers

  1. gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences sort-directories-first true
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  2. Best Answer

    Bookmarks can be added to the left panel in the Nautilus menu in Bookmarks > Add Bookmark or just pressing Ctrl+D when inside a folder

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    If you still want to sort out the folders so that a few are kept always on top you can do so manually by going to View > Arrange Items > Manually, they will keep the desired order.

    If you still want to organize by name so that some folders are kept always on top of the order just add a 0 in front of the name, so for i.e. _videos would be instead 0videos.

    If you are trying to access your folders as fast as possible another option would be the creation of a quicklist for the Unity launcher, instructions can be found here

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