Finder windows don't retain settings!!

I' wil be glad to hear what you find out.

It drives me crazy too, since I work a lot with grouped image files in coloured folders with a kind of personalizerd colour coding.

best regards, Florike

I have the same issue. I work with icons and windows for almost 20 years now. Mountain lion (10.8.3) forgets window settings all the time. At every reboot, I need to refix it. So much time lost. The bottom line is that Icon view, the "raison d'être" of Macintosh, is now just unusable! This is crazy.

Frederic

I don't know what has changed, but the situation seems to be improving. My finder windows seem to drop colour less often as of recently (i.e. last two weeks or so).

I have not changed anything at all in my computer.

Hoping this is true for you too.

Florike

I too, have recently been experiencing the same issue. Only occuring on my new iMac with Mountian Lion (10.8.4). My main finder window does not retain icon sizes or spacing.

Very frustrating, to say the least.

I've been having this problem too ---and on a 6 month old brand new iMac with current Mountian Lion.

Many of my custom icons --- many of which were fine going all the way back to Panter -- keep showing up fuzzy in the Finder. This sometimes even includes icons for brand new apps I download from the App store ⚠ EVen Google Chrome's dock icon shows up fuzzy.

Additionally, an external MyBook 2tb drive use to accept and retain all my custom finder background colors. Now it forgets them at every single read of a folder on the drive! It does this regardless of the account I use.

Never have this problem before Mountain Lion.

I use colors and backgrounds for all manner of purposes. It's very frustrating and I can find no help on the issue.

My previous iMac with Mountain Lion, and before that, Lion, did not have this problem on this external drive.

JC

ps

On top of this, speech to text no longer works on my iMac either, plus my mouse cursor keeps disapearing on me and Preview constantly crashes while viewing a few dozen ordinary jpegs. Not impressed nor happy with Mountain Lion. It's stability is a joke. Worst Mac OS ever.

This has been annoying my on 2 of my Macs - actually started happening after a migration to a new Mac / OS and didn't think much of it... then last week I purchased a new Mini and migrated my old home system across, and straight away it happened again... so this is happening on 2 new systems (MacBook Air, Mini) after performing a migration (using migration assistant). Both systems were fine before the migration.

Specifically both won't retain the Application folder window settings. Both systems were fine before migration (one from 10.7 and one from 10.8) and both systems foget window settings after migration (to 10.8).

Tried all the DS_Store tricks, permissions, repair, etc - but still no luck retaining settings.

Christiaan

Got the same problem. Migrated to 10.8.4 on a 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Mac Pro and the finder window on reboot has a mind of its own. Does'nt remember spacing, folder or view preference choices, it's driving me mad. Tried the terminal repair

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

but no joy .....

Anymore ideas out there ?

Thanks .... Grooverthedog

I've got the same problem here too, and it is frustrating to no end. Why is this apparently so difficult for apple to fix? It's almost time for Mavericks to come out, and the finder in Mountain Lion has yet to be fixed. How is this even possible?

Sadly, it's possible because Apple is transitioning to a consumer appliance manufacturer, and most novice users don't know anything about the Finder.

The days when Apple cared about power users and enterprise are over.

I find it ironic that underneath the dumbed-down OS X is Unix, a powerhouse OS, and all it's being designed for now is social networking, pictures, and watching TV.

IMHO, if Microsoft hadn't followed Apple's lead in morphing to a sparse, hide-and-seek UI in Windows 8, and if WIndows 8 was being adapted more by businesses, I think we'd see more businesses switching from macs to PCs so they can get their major work done.

Businesses don't care if their users can tweet, they need robust Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and web browsing, all of which have pathetic flaws in Mountain Lion.

I'll stop now...

I am having a very similar problem too, although I do not use any custom icons or backgrounds.

But the Icon Size setting on icon view will not stick. Not only through reboot, but I will have a Finder window open in icon view, set to a relatively large icon size, and it will suddenly jump to a smaller icon size, usually 16 x 16 or 48 x 48. (I have a lot of folders full of scans, and I like the icons to be somewhere between 112 to 184 so that I can tell the images apart.)

Each folder that I typically view this way has about 20 to 40 image files in it. The underlying images are usually jpg's, sometimes pngs or Photoshop, with typical pixel dimensions in the 3000 to 5000 range. I have wondered if maybe it is something to do with an "abort process" issue, that if it cannot generate the thumbnails in time it drops back to a smaller icon size. But the weird thing is that it happens randomly when all of the larger thumbnails are already displaying. This happens very frequently, like 10 or 15 times per day. (While I do have DropBox installed, it does not run on Startup, and I only use it a few times a year, when someone notifies me that they have stored something for transfer.)

I cannot find any Apple Support document on this problem. This thread was the only thing that came up when I searched on "Mac Finder icon size won't stick" or "Mac Finder icon view lose size setting".

System: Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a 17 inch MacBook Pro, Memory 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3.

When a single folder is stubborn and won't behave as reliably (OK, actually unreliably...) as the rest, it usually means the file that has the folder's view info is corrupt. The file is hidden, it is named .DS_Store. Onyx can be used to delete the .DS_Store files in a single folder or a hierarchy. A lot easier for most folks than using the Terminal.

http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php

Sam