How to make default view in Nautilus arrange file by modify date the most recent at the top

Solution 1:

Choose Edit -> Preferences and set your preferred layout:

Update

If the First one didn't work(that worked for me) you can try the second-one.

There's an additional parameter default-sort-in-reverse-order that doesn't appear to be accessible from the in-application preferences menu, but can be set in the dconf database.

There is a GUI dconf-editor that allows you to modify such hidden settings - it's not installed by default but available by installing the dconf-tools package. Alternatively you can set it from the command line using gsettings

$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-sort-in-reverse-order true

If the dconf-tools package is installed, there is an equivalent dconf command line

$ dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/default-sort-in-reverse-order

You can revert the change any time with

$ gsettings reset org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-sort-in-reverse-order

or

$ dconf reset /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/default-sort-in-reverse-order

Note that it applies to whatever the default sort order is, so for example if you change back to sort-by-name that will be reversed as well - there doesn't seem to be a way to specify the sort direction individually.

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