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File explorer and widgets order files incomprehensibly

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For many, many months, I've had the file explorer (nautilus) associating a very weird default ordering with my Documents directory. This happens both in nautilus itself and the widget that appears in web browsers when I start uploading a file, as you can see in this screenshot of the latter scenario. attached is a screenshot

As you can see, this ordering seems neither alphabetical, nor date-based, nor based on anything else I can fathom. The files get ordered, as expected, when I click on "Name" in the details pane to order alphabetically by name. But it gets really old having to do that each time I want to look at my files and find a file, after having wasted half a minute looking for the filename in an alphabetical ordering that doesn't exist.

Is there something I can do, perhaps a configuration file to edit, to impose a more sensible default ordering (preferably, ordering by type followed by ordering by name?)

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Looking at the little downward arrow next to "Type", I'd wager this is being sorted by "Type". You can click the "Name" or "Modified" column header to resort your files.
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What is your Ubuntu version? What is the output of terminal command `gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-sort-order`?
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@steeldriver 20.04; "name".
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