Another thing: I checked the "Sort folders before files" option in Nemo's preferences, and indeed, folders appear well before files.
But when I want to move a file from one folder to another, the contents of the selected folder appear, in alphabetical order of course, with the files and folders mixed in, why?

    WetGeek Today it occurred to me to try using Nemo instead, so I installed it and damned if it didn't work!

    I don't know whether this matters to anyone else, but since I made this statement, I thought I should tell why I removed Nemo and replaced Dolphin. Then stopped using that laptop, except as a backup device.

    Nemo did indeed give me access to remote folders, allowing me to enter a password to gain that access. But the file manager is also pressed into service by other application. E.g., choosing a destination for exporting an address book from Thunderbird, or accessing the Downloads folder to receive a downloaded .ISO file. For such purposes, it doesn't prompt for password access and thus doesn't work at all.

    Since VirtualBox 7.x is to be in next week's sync, I'll just keep waiting, and put up with 6.1 until then. I just didn't want to give the impression that Nemo was the solution to all my file manager problems, as I first thought.

      Solarmass So, I right click on the file I want to move in Nemo, then on Browse, and there I select the Documents folder, and this is what I get:

      Do you have any idea how to fix this?

          NB. I would like to point out that, quite recently, I had the same problem with Nautilus. It has since been fixed, without any intervention from me (perhaps, following a system update ?)

          penny-farthing So, I right click on the file I want to move in Nemo, then on Browse, and there I select the Documents folder, and this is what I get:

          What item in the context menu do you select? Copy? And on that screenshot it's not Nemo, I think it's Nautilus folder selection dialog window? 🤔

              Yes, I did start from Nemo, and as explained above, right click on the file selected, then Move to, then Browse... to end up to the screen (where I selected Documents) reported on this post.
              No idea ?

              Solarmass Yes, I did start from Nemo, and as explained above, right click on the file selected, then Move to, then Browse... to end up to the screen (where I selected Documents) reported on this post.
              No idea ?

                  penny-farthing gotcha! Move to item was disabled for me.
                  Folders are on top for me, my settings:

                  BTW have you tried another method:

                  cut the file > open destination folder > paste the file

                      Solarmass I have the same settings like you (except for the icon view which I prefer).
                      Regarding your suggestion, indeed, in this way, the display is correct.
                      But I must admit that I was so used to using "Copy to..." or "Move to...".
                      Must I uninstall Nautilus ? (I haven't done it)
                      Anyway, thanks for taking the time to try to help me during these exchanges.
                      I think that, like some users, I will consider reinstalling my system with the new ISO v.4.4 when it will be released.

                          Solarmass I looked in the Preferences menu and I could not find a link to reset the values set in Nemo or Nautilus.
                          Is there a terminal command to do this ?

                              penny-farthing

                              Install Dconf Editor, go to /org/gnome/nautilus/ and check the toggle Use default value everywhere

                              ^ here is (!) non-default setting

                              old link: https://askubuntu.com/questions/697739/how-to-restore-nautilus-default-settings

                              Next steps you can try:

                                  Solarmass The instructions you gave me were to correct any defects in Nautilus. I can confirm that folders appear before files when copying or moving a file to another folder.
                                  But this was still not the case for Nemo.
                                  So here is what I did:

                                  • uninstall Nemo, then restart the PC
                                  • reinstall Nemo following the procedure provided by @EbonJaeger
                                  • in the Preferences menu, I unchecked the "Inherit view type from parent" option
                                    and here is the result:

                                  Thanks again for your patience and help and good continuation... with Solus! 😃

                                    penny-farthing I'have unistalled Nautilus and Nemo work in the right way also with copy to and move to.
                                    I believe that you jump from Nautilus to Nemo without realizing it.

                                        penny-farthing Installing Nautilus is fine. If the operation you're doing involves a file picker, then that's a part of GTK itself, not any file manager. The file picker is in GTK.