Finder View options won't stay set 10.7.2

Finder view options need resetting each time i log out or restart. How can i make them permanent?
Finder window has no locational or size memory, reverting to a default size and position on start up?
Any ideas how to fix this greatly appreciated

I finally know what causes folders to lose their view settings - even if you have set them to "Always open in..." a particular view (but I do not know how to fix it).
The trigger is setting any window to "column" view. Try it.
(1) Create a new folder, and set it to your preferred view (but not column view). Close the folder and re-open it to verify that it is in the view you have set. You can even set it to "Always open in..." that view, if you like (it doesn't matter).
(2) Now open up any other finder window or folder, and switch it to column view. If it is already in column view, switch it to some other view and then back to column view.
(3) Now go back to the folder you created in step 1 and open it. Presto: column view. (Aargh!)
I confirmed this with a helpful and sympathetic Apple support staffer at the Genius Bar in my local Apple Store. Unfortunately, he had no solution, but noted it as an apparent bug in the 10.7 finder.
This is an extremely reliable behavior, that I have confirmed on 5 different machines all running 10.7.2. It is also an extremely frustrating behavior that I hope Apple fixes soon.
-Barry
P.S. I will copy this to similar threads where this is being discussed, in hopes that it is helpful. Sometimes understanding why something happens can make it a little less frustrating, even if you don't know how to fix it.

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Finder View options, won't stay set after restart or log out

I like to have my application and utility folders (in the finder side bar) open in icon view and arranged by name and my Home and Movies folder open in list view with files arranged by name.
Each time i log out of my computor or restart the view options i have mentioned are reset, which is extreamly frustrating.
I have also noticed that the finder window now opens in a small size in the middle of the screen rather than being aligned to the left hand side as like to have it set.
This problem has only occoured recently, i think after deleting some "relic" files using Cleanapp.
Any ideas on how i can sort this out greatly appreciated

I finally know what causes folders to lose their view settings - even if you have set them to "Always open in..." a particular view (but I do not know how to fix it).
The trigger is setting any window to "column" view. Try it.
(1) Create a new folder, and set it to your preferred view (but not column view). Close the folder and re-open it to verify that it is in the view you have set. You can even set it to "Always open in..." that view, if you like (it doesn't matter).
(2) Now open up any other finder window or folder, and switch it to column view. If it is already in column view, switch it to some other view and then back to column view.
(3) Now go back to the folder you created in step 1 and open it. Presto: column view. (Aargh!)
I confirmed this with a helpful and sympathetic Apple support staffer at the Genius Bar in my local Apple Store. Unfortunately, he had no solution, but noted it as an apparent bug in the 10.7 finder.
This is an extremely reliable behavior, that I have confirmed on 5 different machines all running 10.7.2. It is also an extremely frustrating behavior that I hope Apple fixes soon.
-Barry
P.S. I will copy this to similar threads where this is being discussed, in hopes that it is helpful. Sometimes understanding why something happens can make it a little less frustrating, even if you don't know how to fix it.

The view options won't stay?

I've used Mac OS for a very long time now and am at the least an intermediate user both in hardware and software but this is perplexing. For whatever reason, whenever a Finder window is opened (disk image just mounted, clicked the Finder icon, opened my documents) it always opens in Column View, even if I already set the folder to icon view. It doesn't seem to be saving the .DS_store file correctly or something, because if I close the window and open it again, it resets to column view. Every once in a while it will stay in icon view but it's rare.

DBAqua----
Whoa!
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050217012732914
"....[robg adds: I would also recommend opening NetInfo Manager again and using Security: Disable Root User (after authenticating again) to disable root.]...."
Since I got in trouble jumping in before I really knew what I was doing, tell me the difference between "Root User" and the one that locks the files so you
can't access them from Disk Utility.
I'm putting this in my "ToDo" file for a future time when I'm tuning/cleaning my
files. Right now I have a work in progress.
Thanks again DB, my indebtedness is compounding daily.
...........goldie

IPod View options won't stay

I will set my iPod view options (for the main library) to what I want, as in "Title, Artist, Time, Ratings, Date Added", and every time I reconnect my iPod to my Mac, the view settings go back to the default, most of which I have no desire for! How can I get iTunes to keep the options I set? I have tried everything under iTunes Preferences, but it won't keep. This has to be a bug, right? The iPod is a 8 Gig Nano, new generation. This didn't happen with my older iPod Nano.

" every time I reconnect my iPod to my Mac, the view settings go back to the default, most of which I have no desire for! How can I get iTunes to keep the options I set?"
It appears to be a bug. It's been mentioned here many times before. Send your feedback about it here.
iTunes Feedback.
Incidentally, this is the iTunes for Windows forum.

View options won't stay

I just "up"graded to iTunes 11.0.2.26 on Windows 7 and I am having trouble with the view options. I open the view options and uncheck the "cloud" one, and it goes away. However, each time I start up iTunes again, the **** cloud column is there again. How can I get it to stay gone?

" every time I reconnect my iPod to my Mac, the view settings go back to the default, most of which I have no desire for! How can I get iTunes to keep the options I set?"
It appears to be a bug. It's been mentioned here many times before. Send your feedback about it here.
iTunes Feedback.
Incidentally, this is the iTunes for Windows forum.

How do I adjust finder 'view' options to scroll up/down NOT side to side

Using finder/download I like to see my files/photos, apps, music.... for easier filing/deletion, so I use icon view.
I was thinking that way back when in icon view/kind/date added I would see a page of icon files that I could scroll up/down and enlarge w/ slider bar - (if it decided to work, if not- once again turn off/ turn on.... that's a whole-nother issue)
Anyway, now in icon view I have this never ending line of icons/files that scrolls side to side - what a pain to file.
Is there anyway to set back to a page view instead of the line view?
thanks for any insight!

Turn off the Arrangement.
Arrangements are groupings of like items. It is not sorting.
You have set your arrangement such that all of the icons fall into the same group and are listed horizontally in that group.
View menu, Arrange By, None.
If you want to sort, hold down the option key and Arrange By will change to Sort by.
You can also set both from the View Options dialog (cmd-j).

Finder "View Options" malfunction

I believe this started when I updated to 10.4.6, but my "Applications" (my default "new window" in the Finder) folder always opens in column view the first time after restarting. To explain further: when you open a window and change its "view options" to "this window only" or "all windows," the background color may change, or it may tile the icons, etc. These changes should remain every time you open that particular folder henceforth.
This was always the case for me. Even after shutting down and restarting my computer, when I open a new window... bam! icon view, arranged by name, orange window background. Since updating to 10.4.6, I had to go back and manually fix all these windows. What's worse, is that every time I restart my computer, all the settings reset! The Finder opens up any window in column view, and when I switch to icon view, I have to manually select "all windows" in the view options to get it back the way it should be.
I have "open new windows in column view" UNCHECKED, and, as I said, my computer will remember these settings until I restart. I wonder if it is somehow related to this problem that I've also had since updating: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=438924&tstart=0
Thank you very much for any suggestions you might have.
-Ryan

I'm bumping this thread because I have a very similar problem, and no one has solved it yet. I also have additional symptoms to report that might help narrow down a possible cause of the trouble.
I have two boot drives, an external third party FireWire drive and an internal SATA drive from Apple. Only the internal drive has this problem, and it behaves the same way when booting from either drive. Both drives are at 10.4.6; but I downloaded the Combo updater to install 10.4.6 on my internal drive, whereas I let the Software Update application update my external drive to 10.4.6.
Here are the symptoms:
• After restarting my Mac with either drive, the View Options for my internal SATA drive always revert to Icon View while the view options for my external FireWire drive remain just the way I left them — in List View.
• Furthermore, all of the root level folders (Applications, Library, System, Users, etc.) for my internal SATA drive always revert to Icon View as well. Beyond that level (Applications/Microsoft Office 2004, for example), the View Options settings remain intact, just the way I left them.
• In addition, the window that opens when I double click the icon for my internal SATA hard drive always returns to default position and size, rather than the position and size I last used while my external FireWire drive's window always correctly remains the size and shape it was in before restart.
• Last but not least, when I return my internal SATA drive's setting to List View, the Application and Library folders always default to a hierarchical display of their contents (triangle pointing downward).
For what it's worth, the problem didn't rear its head immediately after I installed the 10.4.6 Combo Update. It happened at least two weeks later — after installing Toast, Jam, Peak Express, DiskWarrior, and TechTool Pro. I've since uninstalled all of those programs (using MacMagna Uninstaller), but the View Options problem remains.
To reiterate, this problem ALWAYS happens to my internal SATA drive but NEVER to my external FireWire drive, no matter which drive I boot from.
Failed Troubleshooting:
Trashing com.apple.finder.plist and com.apple.sidebarlists.plist failed to remedy the problem. This doesn't surprise me at all because my external FireWire drive and my internal SATA drive each have their own copies of those files, yet the internal SATA drive has the same symptoms when either drive boots. In other words, the problem must be system independent.
Upon reaching that conclusion, I tried zapping my G5's PRAM; but that also failed to remedy the problem.
I'm not all that familiar with the G5 architecture, but it's apparent that some settings are boot drive independent. If so, I don't know where these settings are stored. For example, when I boot from my internal SATA drive and I turn off Spotlight Indexing by dragging and dropping my drives one by one into the Privacy frame of the Spotlight window, those settings are retained when I boot from my external FireWire drive. (It's an unfortunate consequence as far as I'm concerned, but that's another topic.)
On the one hand, it seems petty to worry about this problem as it's really a minor inconvenience. On the other hand, this scenario last occurred months ago on the internal SATA drive that shipped with my Mac. Then a month ago, its operating system became corrupted and the drive developed bad blocks. I wound up replacing it under my Apple Care plan, and I'm just finishing setting up the new drive from scratch. Perhaps the two problems are unrelated; but if they're not, then I dread what lies ahead, because I just spent three weeks diagnosing and reinstalling my setup!
I hope that all of this info helps someone to help those of us who have encountered this problem. I'd also like to thank Peter Walker for his Automator script workaround (posted above). With it, I'm able to temporarily, automatically correct all of the display problems, except for the undesired window size and hierarchical display.
Thanks, in advance, for any further assistance.
Best,
Geoff
Dual 2.5 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 3.5 GB RAM

Finder View Options, For All Sub Folders

If I understand how View Options work in Finder windows ...
I can set View Options for a particular folder to always open up in a particular View Options setting.
I can set that very same View Option as the Default View Option for all the rest of the folders I open up.
But, what I would like to do is set the View Options for a folder and all it's sub folders to be the same. Without changing the default View Option for the rest of the folder I open up.
For example.
I like to have my Documents open up in List View.
I like to have my Photos open up in Icon View. (along with certain Icon View Option settings)
Is there a way to do this?
Can I set the directory and all sub folders/directories for all my photos to open up the way I would like them? Without having to change the way all my Document folders/directories open up?
Because the way it seems to work now, is that every time I create a new folder in my Photos directory/folder, I have to manually set the View Options, since the default is List View and not Icon view. If I change the default to Icon View, then any new folder/directory in my Documents will then open up in Icon View.

If the folder is not set to open in a specific view, it should open in the same view as the containing folder. When using mixed views, you need to open the folder in another window to get the view it previously had.
In your example, setting Documents to always open in list view and Photos to always open in Icon view should have any new sub folders open in the same view. If any existing sub folders have a different view, you will need to manually change the view, since the Finder will (usually) keep track of the view any particular folder has.

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I work for radio and use iTunes to rate tracks for broadcast. Every time I pop in a new CD, I have to select View > View Options > My rating... Is there a way to make this the default view or to make this columns stick?
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manilx wrote:
V.K. wrote:
manilx wrote:
The problem is only on SOME folders, like the Utilities one. Other keep the settings just fine!
did you run the commands I gave you? you can reset only the particular folders but then you need to delete just the .DS_store files for those folders. all finder windows should be closed and this has to be done from terminal (or using Onyx). for the Utilities folder it would be
rm /Applications/Utilities/.DS_Store
killall Finder
Yes, I deleted the DS-Store file from the Utilities folder and the plist and killed Finder.
was the folder closed when you did it? that's important. if it was and this is still happening then I don't know what's going on.
I then thick the option to always show in icon view resize the window. When I kill the Finder the window is at its smaller default size. When I logout or restart the window opens in list view. The folder is bewitched!

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