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.

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                            EbonJaeger hey Ebon---your instructions worked on a fresh budgie install. no more nautilus!

                            I recommend all Budgie new installs to do this and read the whole thread for the nemo add-ons. nautilus was problematic when I used it immediately after install. some mediocre things never change (nautilus) but thanks to you I changed it. in fedora budgie nemo is the default. that will probably happen in the next .iso...

                            ...but I could not wait🙂

                              I'm on Gnome and I've given up on Nautilus. I installed nemo and removed nautilus as part of my new install. So far so good.

                                a month later

                                kizilyildiz I'm not sure what you mean. The icons in those screenshots look the same to me; they should be using whatever you have your icon theme set to.

                                  riffer I installed nemo and removed nautilus as part of my new install.

                                  Speaking of changing to Nemo: Why is Nemo placed in the Accessories sub-menu (after a reboot) on Budgie? Why not System Tools, or if not that, Utilities? To me, it seems like it's definitely a system tool.

                                      WetGeek Because the category that it has in the desktop file is Utility, which the spec describes as "Accessories," which is the name that Budgie uses. Just yesterday I actually made this PR changing some of the category sorting, in which the current Utilities category will no longer exist because it's A) ambiguous with Accessories and B) doesn't include a desktop category that one would expect (X-GNOME-Utilities).

                                        a year later

                                        EbonJaeger In the next edition of Solus, this will become the default for new installations of Solus Budgie, and these steps will not be necessary.
                                        Hello, I just wanted to give a small feedback, that this is not standard as of now. Just in case you switched to nemo in the current ISO and something is not yet working as it should. I did a fresh install yesterday and nemo-desktop wasnt set as default yet.