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Views and sorting

Show files as a grid, masonry, table or columns, and put them in the order you need.

Archivist Admin Checked in Starchive on October 12, 2026

You want to see a folder’s files the way that suits the job: big pictures to spot an image, a table to compare sizes and dates.

Steps

  1. Open a folder. Here it is Photographs › Workplace › 1940s: four photographs as a grid, sorted by Newest upload.
The Files screen showing the four photographs in the 1940s workplace folder as a grid, with the search box scoped to the folder and the sort menu set to Newest upload.
  1. Click the sort menu (Newest upload) and choose an order: newest or oldest upload, Z to A or A to Z by name, newest or oldest created, largest or smallest.
The sort menu open over a folder of photographs: Newest upload, Oldest upload, Z to A, A to Z, Newest created, Oldest created, Largest, Smallest.
  1. Click the view button, left of the sort menu.
  2. Set View as, and for the grid: Image size (Small to XX Large), Image layout (Aspect ratio keeps each picture’s shape, Square shows them all as squares) and File information (Visible or Hidden names).
The View preferences menu: View as Grid, Image size Medium, Image layout Aspect ratio, File information Visible.
  1. Pick Table to see one row per file with its Title, Size, Uploaded on date and AI Tags.
The same folder in the Table view: one row per photograph with its title, size, upload date and AI tags.

Good to know

  • There are four views: Grid, Masonry (bigger pictures at their own height, stacked in columns), Table and Panel (one column per folder level; see How Starchive is organized).
  • Starchive remembers the view you picked in this browser. Another browser or computer starts from the grid.
  • On a phone the files stack in one column beside the rail, but the sort menu and the view button are cut off at the right edge. Use a wider screen to reach them.
The Files screen on a phone, 390 pixels wide: the photographs stack in one column beside the icon rail.

Questions

Will Starchive keep the view I picked?

In this browser, yes. On another browser or computer you start from the grid and Newest upload.

What is the difference between "upload" and "created"?

Uploaded is when the file arrived in Starchive. Created is the file's own date, the one its details list as Created on.