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How to restore finder view options to defaults?

Under Lion how can you restore all folders to use the default view options - not the user defined defaults, but the original Lion defaults?


Cheers,

Travis

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 27, 2011 4:42 AM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2011 5:01 AM

In Finder "Go" menu, hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences and trash these files:

com.apple.finder.plist

com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

com.apple.FolderActions.plist

com.apple.FolderActionsSetup.plist

Then, restart.(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

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Oct 27, 2011 5:01 AM in response to Coran

In Finder "Go" menu, hold the option key and choose Library. Then go to Preferences and trash these files:

com.apple.finder.plist

com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

com.apple.FolderActions.plist

com.apple.FolderActionsSetup.plist

Then, restart.(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)

How to restore finder view options to defaults?

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