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EDLIU Author

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How Do I Reset The Finder Windows Positions?

Hi,

I would like to "reset my finder windows positions". Anyone knows how I can do that?

Thanks.

Posted on Jun 22, 2014 2:36 AM

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BobHarris

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Jun 24, 2014 12:52 PM in response to EDLIU

OK. I did some experiments of my own. I needed to restart the Finder

Apple menu -> Force Quit -> Finder -> Relaunch

Then the Window positions and sizes reset.

Is that correct?

Yes

BTW, why did the Terminal showed "no such file or directory" when I repeated the steps again?

Once you have deleted the .DS_Store, until the Finder processes that Folder again (that is to say, you change something via the Finder about that Folder) there will be no new .DS_Store. So trying to delete the .DS_Store a 2nd time when it doesn't exist, will give

rm: .DS_Store: No such file or directory

EDLIU Author

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Jun 24, 2014 1:04 PM in response to BobHarris

Hi, Bob,

After Relaunching the Finder, the problem still exists.

The folder positions and sizes are still not reset.

And there still does not have a file or directory named .DS_Store.

Thanks.

ps. I'm running OS X Mavericks v10.9.3

BobHarris

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Jun 24, 2014 1:07 PM in response to EDLIU

I am out of ideas. Sorry.

Jun 24, 2014 1:12 PM in response to EDLIU

When you reset the Finder window position. Did you click on the red close button then reopen the Finder window to see if the position is remembered?

EDLIU Author

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Jun 24, 2014 1:13 PM in response to BobHarris

Thanks anyway.

EDLIU Author

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Jun 24, 2014 1:15 PM in response to dianeoforegon

The folder window positions and sizes are still the same.

Thanks.

EDLIU Author

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Jun 24, 2014 1:40 PM in response to BobHarris

Hi,

I ran OnyX and deleted the folder's .DS_Store file. The problem is still not solved.

One thing I Noticed is that, There's a grayed .DS_Store in my home directory, but cannot find one in the folder I want to reset the window.

Is the grayed .DS_Store in my home directory created by the system, or created by my misuse of the sudo nano command?

Thanks.

ps. If I want to reset the position and size of a folder named "TEMP", which is on my desktop, do I "delete the .DS_Store that's inside the TEMP folder? Or inside the DESKTOP folder?

Jun 24, 2014 3:19 PM in response to EDLIU

Check out Moom and see if that helps. It has a demo you can try.

http://manytricks.com/moom/

How Do I Reset The Finder Windows Positions?