Utilities folder won't remember view option settings.
Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Somnion wrote:
The Utilities folder won't remember view option settings even when I set them to default, after every reboot the settings are forgotten.
Somnion wrote:
The Utilities folder won't remember view option settings even when I set them to default, after every reboot the settings are forgotten.
Somnion wrote:
it doesn't seem to work I rebooted after deleting the ds_store and reapplied my settings, rebooted again and it still won't remember my settings. Here is something though, when I use that command again it says there is no such file or directory
so maybe its forgetting my settings because it can't make that file. other folders remember my settings fine.
Apple changed that with Snow Leopard by making the view style persistent, so that if you change the view style in one folder, you change it in every folder.
baltwo wrote:
Not so. Set a folder's view options, select Use as Defaults and all subsequently, previously unopened folders, inherit that view. All previously opened folders retain whatever view they had when last set.
I'm having the same problem... It started with my Utilities folder, and has now infected my Application folder was well.
I've always had exactly the same problem in Slow Leopard on my MacBookPro, but NOT on my MacMini (issued around same time, came with Snow Leopard installation CD).
Even the Genius bar people in the Bath AppleStore had a dig at it, and could not resolve the issue. Deleted .localized and .DS files but this did not help the problem. Repaired permissions, did away with all sorts of Cach (systems etc.), did system analysis etc but NOTHING helps. Very strange - it DOES remember the original view, I just need to tell it to use the 'Default setting' and all is back to how I wanted it. But restart and it has reverted to the 'original' default, upon which I can tell it to use my 'default setting' again (Alt-'Use as Default' button in View (command-J) becomes 'Revert to Default').
Not really a big problem just really annoying to have to do that every time.....
I find it odd that this problem still has not been fixed. It even does it on my brothers Mac upgraded to LION. ???
The problem recently resolved itself - no idea how or why. Replacing .DS files or preference files did not help, but I do repair permissions regularly, do the daily, weekly & monthly repairs manually once in a while, and use TechTool Pro to ensure all is running smooothly. Sorry I cannot be of more help. My gut instinct, though, is that it is a problem that was copied over from a previous operating system, and that it will not happen if a Mac is set up with the newest OS from scratch....
I wish I had an explanation though - sorry!
Good luck
Utilities folder won't remember view option settings.