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Finder is not applying my own default preferences settings

I’m facing a problem in changing my preferences settings in finder, i chose to open the download folder by default and search the current folder instead of the whole mac by default, however these settings does not apply even though it’s already selected !! 

My finder keeps opening a random folder by default called “searching this mac”.

Also when i try to search for a something in any usual folder, it still searches the whole mac! 

I can’t find a solution for that! please help because it is so annoying and time consuming


this what i chose:

and this is the folder that keeps open by default:

Posted on Mar 16, 2022 3:46 PM

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Posted on Mar 16, 2022 4:14 PM

To bring up Finder using Command F will default to This Mac. Using Command N should default to whatever you have set in preferences (downloads).

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Finder is not applying my own default preferences settings

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