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Hi,


I recently bought a newer mac running Monterey. I notice a few things that are different in the finder windows and am wondering if I can adjust them.


1) In the "gallery view" items in a folder appear at the bottom as icons which are very small. In previous versions the individual items were in a list and you were able to use a slider to adjust the size of the icons/gallery view. In the newer gallery the icons go sideways and it's a lot harder to scroll through numerous items.


2) In the list view I notice it doesn't always remember how a finder window appeared previously. For example, my documents folder has a lot of items. Every time I open that folder it appears small and I need to adjust it to see all the items. I find that other finder windows/folders don't do this.


Thanks for your help.


Gary

Posted on Aug 2, 2022 11:12 AM

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Posted on Aug 2, 2022 7:01 PM

The slideshow view went away and was replaced with what you see. I don’t know why and we can’t speculate.

A Finder window is not a view of each folder, independently. It is a display that shows the contents of a folder in the view it has unless the folder has been set to always open in a certain view. I’m not sure if that stores anything more than the view type.

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Aug 2, 2022 7:01 PM in response to Gary Goldblum

The slideshow view went away and was replaced with what you see. I don’t know why and we can’t speculate.

A Finder window is not a view of each folder, independently. It is a display that shows the contents of a folder in the view it has unless the folder has been set to always open in a certain view. I’m not sure if that stores anything more than the view type.

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