Old Lion Finder bug reappears in Mountain Lion -- lost options

Same here - irritating loss of background but haven't yet noticed the change in icon size. I must test that one!

What a shame !!!

This last 3 years OSX NEVER kept my icons clean 👿

Leopard was not bad, Snow Leopard was ugly, Lion last versions finaly became almost correct, but Mountain Lion is worst. I lost hope I will switch to windows !

When I open a drive or a folder I almost always get these horrible scrambled icons, it is just TERRIBLE 😠

I tried everything, even very complicate cleanings cache, ressoucefork, DSStore...

Nothing can resolve the problem for more than few days, it is just pathetic.

jannuss wrote:

There were a number of problems with the Finder View options under Lion which were fixed bit-by-by, upgrade-by-upgrade.

In general, folder placement was scrambled and view options were lost/reset after certain operations.

Now, with Mountain Lion, some of these problems have resurfaced:

-- I use Show View Options to increase the size of icons and to set the background of a folder to a color

-- I use Mail to attach a file from this folder via the Attach window

When I return to the folder after sending my Mail message, icon size and background color have been reset to default.

In Lion, the Always Show in Icon View option was also reset.

So far this hasn't happened in Mountain Lion.

Anyone else haveing this problem?

Janet

I tried and don't see any issues. When you say the "Attach" window, what does that mean? Do you mean the "Share" contextual submenu or button (or does it translate to "attach" from another localization)?

If it is something other than Share submenu, then is that a third-party program that provides that function?

You might consider deleting the .DS_Store file from that folder. Various utilities can remove them, like OnyX, or you can use the Terminal.

Hello,

It works as it was designed, for me. If I sort by name, it does just that, and you can't move things around wherever you want to - I realy like this one.

If you sort by "None", you can move stuff around at will, and if you "Snap to Grid", it allows you to move stuff around, but in a predetermined grid.

I tested the viewing options, and they all work. In some of the older OS X versions, you could move stuff around at will, but that got to be messy - this way is a lot better, for me, anyway.

I don't see the problem.

Cheers,

M.

Oh, absolutely Monty.

The problem for many folks (myself included) is combining certain view options.

For example... if I set my icons to arrange by name AND decide I want my folder background colour to be blue, it will not stick.

I can either - arrange by name OR have that blue background (with arrange by none) but not BOTH

...Which I should be able to do.

Cheers

jannuss wrote:

It's simple

It's apparently too simple for me to replicate.

I followed all of your steps and could't replicate the behavior you describe.

The .DS_Store file holds the display options for a window. If that is not being written to correctly, the view options will reset.

Just to add weight of numbers, I have the same/similar issue, which I experience as:

• I have set default preferences to have a certain background color/font size & spacing etc.
• For many folders I could not set the background color. If I cmd-J, then the radio buttons & the color square which allow altering background color are disabled.
• The folders for which I have this problem are folders set to Arrange by Name.
• If I change a folder to Arrange by None then instantly the radio buttons & colour square enabling change background color are enabled and the color becomes my chosen color
• If I set it back to Arrange by Name then the radio buttons and color square are disabled again (and the color flips back to white instead of my chosen background color).

I can either Arrange by Name or I can set background color. Apparently I can't have both. Which isn't very good really.

Yes, THANK YOU for posting this - I've been having the same problem constantly and it is a daily annoyance. Every time I use a program (or even web-based things like Facebook) to browse and pick a file from somewhere (like a photo) it will screw up all my view settings in any folder I browsed through to get to the file I wanted to choose. This used to happen in Lion but they fixed it with an update and now I get my new iMac and it's happening all over again! So frustrating!

Geez, I can't believe Apple hasn't solved this yet with some kind of update. Lion was working fine and my folder view settings STAYED THE SAME like they're supposed to, but now if any pop-up window (like from a web browser) navigates through the folder structure, it will destroy the view settings for any folder you use it to navigate through. WHY did this old bug reappear?!

Same issue with folder sorting issue (and like jannuss with background image). Mountain Lion 10.8.4 (on iMac, not that it should matter). No update so far have fixed the issue.

This is issue seems recurent and definitely a bug seen the number of people who viewed (23991 Views) the following page https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3216766?start=150&tstart=0 and the number of posts about it. Someone reported purchasing a brand new iMac recently (on this conversation (same issue) https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3210568?answerId=22763034022#22763034022&tstart=0#22763034) only because of this issue... the problem came back !

Hum a bit perplexed now. What to do ?

jannuss wrote:

Barney

OK

That's actually helpful

It means that there is yet another contributing factor that I have identified.

I'll keep looking

FWIW, I can't duplicate this either. The closest I come is that the folder reverted to the list view when reopened (I had closed it in icon view), but when I switch back to icon view the newly set non-default background color & icon size I set before closing the window remain in place.

Note that I have not set this folder to "always open in icon view" & list view is what I typically use, but I have not set that as a default. I don't know if that makes any difference.