How to Change View Options for ALL Finder Windows?

Yes thanks but none of these work.

This seems to be a problem that gets progressively worse with Finder (on all OS X versions)

A clean install and everything is good for a while and then it just randomly starts happening

Been like this for as long as I can remember (OS X Tiger I think)

Really annoying

May I suggest, since this command line is relatively safe (only .DS_Store files will be deleted), to add the "-f" modifier - to force the deletion?

The full line would then become :

sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm -f {} \;

This has been a constant irritant for 16 years (sixteen years?). I will set a default on how a window will display. I will open a window and change it from list to icon view, then every window I open from that point will open in icon view, no matter how I previoiusly set it. If I then change a view in a window to list, every window (including those previously set to icon view) will switch to list view.

This was introduced when the OS switched to UNIX. Up through OS9 this never was a problem. Apple doesn't listen to officially posted feature requests on this.

There is a tip in this discussion about changing all windows, including those opened in the past, to default to a specific view. Does anyone know how to set a display default that doesn't screw with previous windows?

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved and is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. A new post would be much more visible. You can link to this one.

Hello FilipAAOfficial,

Be very careful when running Terminal commands you find over the internet - especially ones from 3 years ago. In this case, you appear to have been lucky. The command appears to have worked and there were no errors.

This is UNIX-land. Just because it lists errors doesn't mean that anything went wrong. Just because it doesn't print an error doesn't mean that all your files haven't been deleted.

The process takes some time, depending on how many files/folders you have.

Be patient, let it run.

Once that$ sign shows up, follow the above instructions. Works for me on an old Snow Leopard and newer Sierra.

Good computing.

thats what its looks like when I relaunch the Finder and open a window (force quit) -

and thats what it looks like when I close this window and reopen it (via Dock) -

Thanks for your help!

i have got this problem when i command that

also i want to change all folders and sub folders folders view size

please help me

None of these commands works for me. I just receive an error message, please have a look at the attached screenshot below. ⬇️

Then, try single quotes around the semicolon: {} \';'"

If you want to get the real exports advice, post to the AppleScript forum.

Worked for me thanks so much!

It worked for Mavericks.

Thanks so much!

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is marked solved, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one.