I'm New to Mac, But Something Strange is Happening

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I'm New to Mac, But Something Strange is Happening

I have music files in a sub directory (folder) that I dragged and dropped in the music app. I have other folders in the documents directory. If I click on the directory below documents, downloads directory, and return to documents, the music files are out of the music folder and are in the list fashion along with the other folders in the documents directory.If I go to the applications directory, one above documents directory, and click on it then drop back down to the documents directory, the files returned to their respective folders.

Mac Studio, 13.0

Posted on Nov 18, 2022 6:37 PM

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Answer 1

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Barney-15E

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Nov 20, 2022 6:26 AM in response to tn6

The Finder windows can be set to open in a particular view. Since you created those folders, they likely haven't been set for any particular view and will take whatever view the file browser window has.

I don't know if Applications is set to Icon View for its default, but may be.

I'm pretty sure Downloads is set to List View.

So, you click Downloads and see the files in List View in that folder.

You click Documents, which may not have a default view, so it remains in List View.

You click on Applications set to Icon View, and then go back to see Documents in the same view the window had been set to, Icon View.

You can set the desired view in the View Options for the folder (cmd-j), Always open in…View

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etresoft

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Nov 18, 2022 6:45 PM in response to tn6

Most of those views are icon view. You have one on (hierarchical) list view. When you go back and forth between folders, they remember the view you were using. You can change the view using buttons in the toolbar.

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Answer 3

Nov 18, 2022 6:58 PM in response to tn6

Greetings… could be a sync issue in my experience. Are other devices on the account being used and given enough time to synchronize your iCloud? Other Things to ask would be New or Used Mac? if Used did you erase all content and settings? Factory Restored with latest Updated MacOs? Update the software?

I also had this happen once where firmware had to be resolved as i had an error within the way i partitioned internally. Considering Taking it to Apple Genius Bar for help.

Challenging to pinpoint issues without more information & hope this helped

Regards.

Edit: after gaining a different perspective i believe user etresoft is 200 IQ

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tn6 Author

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Nov 20, 2022 8:01 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thank you Barney-15E. That was it! I'm going to be struggling for another few months. New to Apple. For the last 19 years I've been building and overclocking PC's.

Built my first system, during 1999, using a PC Power and Cooling tower. It was a huge, heavy steel monster on casters. I made an all SCSI (scuzzy) system using the Adaptec controller on the ASUS P2B-DS motherboard (mobo). The mobo was a dual processor board. I mounted (2) Pentium III processors. The HDD were (5) 9GB IBM Ultrastar scuzzy drives. I had 1GB of SDRAM, an IBM scuzzy CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive, an Nvidia GPU with 3D rendering, a PC Power and Cooling psu, (2) cpu coolers ( one for each Pentium III) and a lot of exhaust and intake fans. After the first year, I overclocked it. That was difficult. Couldn't overclock in the BIOS back then. There were dip switches on the board. Shutdown the PC, remove the side steel panel and move one switch. Write down the change and see if it can boot up. Works? Repeat the process with another dip switch leaving the previous switch in its new location. 3 months later I had it overclocked. That's when I learned about real cooling. The processors began to overheat. Go back in and lower the clock rate of the CPU and try everything again.

After 25 years of Windows (first PC purchased 1997), I'm using a Mac. Thanks for your help. Stay safe, healthy and covid-19 free.

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