I find it quite strange that no one has yet asked this question on these forums, as this appears to be a very popular question on many other forums.
In case you are wondering, yes, there is a way to make Finder sort by type with Folders at the top (or bottom) without using 3rd party applications as shown in the following screenshot:
The method to achieve this is incredibly simple. All you need to have is Administrator privileges and knowledge of how to use a Text editor.
1. Select Finder, click on Go from the menu bar and select Go to Folder:
2. From the dialog box that opens, type:
/System/Library/CoreServices/
and press Return:
3. Locate Finder.app, right click on it, and select Show Package Contents:
4. Navigate to Contents>Resources>English.lproj and open InfoPlist.strings in a text editor:
5. Navigate to the line which says
"Folder" = "Folder";
at around line 7 of the file, and simply add an empty space or a symbol (such as "." or "~") in front of the second
"Folder".:
6. Save the text file, type in the Administrator password when asked, and close the text file.
7. The final step would be to restart finder, which you can achieve by holding in the ALT or OPTION key and right clicking on the Finder icon in Dock, then selecting Relaunch.
Now, if you click on the Kind tab in Finder (see screenshot at top of this post), your folders should be automatically sorted at the top.
Make Finder sort by type with Folders at top
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