Cover flow anomalies

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Cover flow anomalies

I suppose this is a Mac OSX Leopard bug, but maybe I'm wrong.

When I turn a window from list to cover flow view, and then later open certain other finder windows that were previously in list view, I find that they are now in cover flow view too. (This happens to some, but not all, windows that were previously in list view.)

Likewise, if I turn a window from cover flow to list, ALL windows later go back to list view, even the ones I wanted in cover flow view!

I thought changing one window to cover flow affected only that window. instead, OSX can't seem to grasp that I want some windows in cover flow and others in list.

imac 2.8 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.4)

Posted on Sep 5, 2008 12:13 AM

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Sep 5, 2008 12:31 AM in response to Timothy Arends1

I suppose it's not a bug but a new feature. The bug is when you use the back button....

Anyway, yep, that's how it works. You must use "Show View Options" and explicitly set every folder you want to have a certain display. If I double click my hard drive icon it opens in Column view, because I went to View->Show View Options and put a check in the radio button to "always open in column view" when I had the window open and set to column view. The alias to my home folder on the Desktop opens in list view for the same reason, while various picture folders open in Icon view. But if I open some folder that doesn't have a view explicitly set, it opens in whatever view the last opened folder had. Drives me nuts, but Apple was actually monkeying with things to silence the chorus of complaints about an inability to set a global default for Finder windows. Personally I find the new system confusing, And then there's the back button bug....
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