How to Change View Options for ALL Finder Windows?

Hi Baltwo. I hope you don't mind me latching on here quickly.

Your command above works as advertised for me. What I tend to do for myself and others is make them into Automator applications and embed the command into an Applescript..

Usually in this way when using sudo in one, instead of ;

sudo ******* ******, you might type;

do shell script "******* ******" with administrator privileges.

My problem is when there are quotes in the actual command itself as per below. How might I get around this, (I think the semi colon may present an issue too)?

on run {input, parameters}

do shdo shell script "find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;" with administrator privileges

returreturn input

endend run

Try single quotes around the term: '.DS_Store'. As for the semicolon, that shouldn't matter.

Cool, thanks for that. Seems to have half solved things. The semi colon though is an issue.

I get the following message;

Expected “"” but found unknown token.

(The semi is highlighted and appears immediately before the quote mark).

BTW, shall I start a new thread do you think?

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

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

Nope, still baulks on it. Thanks for your input so far though. I will do as you suggest and repost.....

Good luck.

Thanks. I'm just doing some further reading before I [post.

Make sure to have a backup before running any terminal command listed in this thread. One typo and it will erase your hard drive. See After Performing simple Terminal Command Mac 10.10 won't boot properly

sorry to bother you but, does this take a while? I ran the script about an hour ago and so far haven't seen the $ prompt. Here's what I have so far -

Ryans-MacBook-Pro:~ ryanamick$ sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;

Password:

find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory

find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory

nfs server localhost:/l9kBnD88pKDocUpXdF3Gh_: not responding

nfs server localhost:/l9kBnD88pKDocUpXdF3Gh_: not responding

nfs server localhost:/l9kBnD88pKDocUpXdF3Gh_: is alive again

Thanks for any help you could offer

Can't help since I don't deal with nfs servers. You might try isconnecting from the server and trying again.

I've been searching for hours on how to do this in El Capitan and this fixed it !

Some folders were set to 10pt others were set to 12pt.

Thanks so much !

Tony

Hi baltwo,

just tried the sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \; command;

it seems like it somehow messed up my finder, when I launch the finder I find myself in some "upper" directory,

and it didnt do any good in terms of changing the finder view options.

Is there anything I can do to reverse the effects ??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ps. I'm using mavericks

All I can suggest is to restore the bootable backup (clone) or Time Machine backup. Yours is the first to mention such behavior. What do you mean by "when I launch the Finder"? When you reboot, the Finder is automatically launched; the Desktop with the top menu bar and Dock is the initial Finder window.

I was referring to the Finder in the Dock. When I start it the first time, it leads me to some upper directory as described before; when i close and reopen it, this doesen't happen anymore - only when I restrat the computer or restart the finder via "force quit applications".

Clicking on the Finder's Dock icon just makes the Finder the top-most app and brings all open Finder windows to the front. It does not launch the Finder. Post a screenshot of this upper level directory, so we can better troubleshoot your issue.