Saving Column Order in Win 10 File Explorer

Open the folder in question, and access the "Folder Options" dialog, via: (Click View in the ribbon, click the Options button, and click Change folder and search options.)

Click the View tab, and click the Reset Folders button. Click Yes.

This resets the folder view settings for all folders that are of the same type (eg. pictures). And resetting folder views can be necessary sometimes to clear corruption of folder view settings, or if you exceed the folder view settings storage limit (If I recall correctly, max is 5000)

If nothing helps, you can completely reset the folder view settings using the Vbscript here.

Note: The above fixes don't help if the sort order issue you're facing is for music folders containing .mp3 files AND sorted by a metadata field (like Contributing artist, album etc). This is a known issue in Windows 10, and no solution yet as far as I know.

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