“..when the Mac first appeared in 1984, it was all about the icons. Icons for documents, icons for folders, icons for disks, an icon for the Trash. Icon View is the most traditional way to display content in a file browser window on a Mac. “
To set a window’s contents to Icon View, select a window, go to menu View > As Icons.
You can choose to sort these icons in several ways.
- Click the View Menu.
- Click Sort By
- Choose a criterion.