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Default Sort by Name Rather than by Date

  • March 17, 2026
  • 4 replies
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Since Box recently updated when I move a file the locations are now all sorted by “Date” (most recently used) rather than by “Name” (alphabetical) - I understand that I can click on “Name” to have the files sort alphabetically - is there any way to get the default sort back to alphabetic name?

I have tried going to All Files, sorting by name, but no mater what I do the sort goes back to date

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

4 replies

  • New Member
  • March 18, 2026

Yes, please!  When I try to sort by name, even manually, I get an error page saying it’s not working.

 


  • New Member
  • April 3, 2026

Yes please. Box, fix this. I want to set the default for all folders to sort by filename, as it was for the past decade. 


  • New Member
  • June 4, 2026

Upvoting this for visibility, would be extremely helpful to be able to set our own defaults. Defaulting to last updated is almost never helpful in finding what I need.


  • New Member
  • June 18, 2026

This has been driving me nuts too. Found this on another thread and it seems to work:

 

When you define a sorting order in your All Files window, Box applies that sorting order as the default sorting order in all your Box windows.