Forcing lister to sort by column other than 'Name"

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G'day all.
At the moment I'm feeling ... well ... pretty dumb.

I'm running DO Pro 12.67 on Win10.

I have read a post similar to what I want to do.

I have gone to Preferences > Folder formats and selected as shown

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I then set up Default Format > User Default as below.
I don't want File Type and want to sort by Date & Time, not filename as shown below.

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I apply these settings, exit Settings and save this layout as 'Default lister' (and 'Save This Lister' as well).

I then shut down DO and re-open either by double click on desktop or select DO from task bar.
Annoyingly, DO starts with 'Type' column included and sorting by name. Grrrrrr ...

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What am I doing wrong and/or what have I missed?
This is driving me nuts!

ANY help from you gurus will be welcome and appreciated.
Ian

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There are several more folder formats in your list. To find out which one overruled the default, use the padlock:

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/Documents/Identifying_the_current_format.htm

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Type isn't the default sort column, so it must've been set in one/some of the formats and could be changed back in the same way.

But if you just want all your folders to look the same, there's a much easier way:

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G'day Ixp and Leo.

YESSSSS! I KNEW there would be a guru (or two) out there!

Hovering over the 'Lock', Ixp, told me the defaults were from the top level of the drives.

The 'Folder Formats' was the thing I was overlooking, Leo, and applying it to the whole drive, not just the current folder, was exactly the setting I needed.

:tada: :clap: :clap: :clap:

Thanks so much & best regards
Ian

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