Yosemite: Finder to show folders before other files

sudo cp /System/library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings /System/library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings.bak
#convert from binary to xml format
sudo plutil -convert xml1 /System/library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
sudo nano /System/library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
# add a space so it looks like: <value> Folder</value>, check the screenshot
sudo plutil -convert binary1 /System/library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
sudo killall Finder

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