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With latest macOS Monterey, Finder does not retain my last preferred location and size after relaunch or restart of Mac. This has never been an issue for older macOS like High Sierra and before it. Any way to tweak it?
It happens to me after each time I come back from screen save, but it seems to only happen on my second monitor. It started after the upgrade from the latest version of 10.xx to Monterey 11.0.1.
Meanwhile some apps insist on going to a specific desktop and I have no idea how to change that, which I have not yet looked for answers to but I'm mentioning it here since it might be related.
In some older macOS I could save the Finder window location AFAIR by:
Delete the invisible .DS_Store inside the offending folder and reboot. Set the folder as desired and close it. Reboot and check if it sticks.
I recently tried it to the Big Sur root folder but it has no .DS_Store file.
Shift-Command-. (a period at the end) shows/hides invisible files. Or in Terminal type "ls -al" (without quotes).
I can now see .DS_Store at my home folder, for example. But somehow at least in Big Sur I can not create a new .DS_Store in a brand new APFS folder (in FAT volumes they are too readily created and I use a script to remove them before using that flash drive in Windows).
ls -al ~/
-rw-r--r--@ 1 matti staff 22532 Nov 6 21:03 .DS_Store
Backup the Mac (just in case).
Then "cd " to the desired folder. The check the contents with that "ls -al".
If there is a .DS_Store file, you can delete it with "sudo rm .DS_Store" (the "sudo" might be left out if you are the owner of that file. sudo prompts you for your admin password).
Or a safer way is to in Finder to display that invisible "dot file" with Shift-Command-. and then trash it the normal way ("sudo rm " command can be dangerous if the user does typos!!).
In the past I have successfully saved Finder windows with this but even then I had to follow a certain workflow with a reboot to make it work. Newer macOS might behave differently.
Wish I could help. But I wonder why you need to reboot all the time? I’ve been using macs from the beginning and I don’t reboot more than once a month. I just put it to sleep.
Thanks for your reply. I guess its habitual for me to shut it down when I am done every time. Won't it drain battery power if I just close my macbook's cover and let it sleep instead of shutdown?
Does the old trick of just holding down option as you resize, relocate then close the window not work when you then open a new window?
Sadly no. The issue happens whenever shutdown as well as Finder relaunch.
Yes. For my case it started after High Sierra.
Thanks for sharing. I am running Monterey now. Not sure how to locate the invisible DS store in it.
Hi Matti. In Terminal I typed Is -al and yes I saw the whole DS store line as what you shown. So what do I do next? Thanks.
Tried but still the same. Thanks for your help anyway. Cheers.
Finder window location and size goes back to default setting after every reboot of Mac.
