Finder window preferences are completely broken.

Question

Snow Leopard has been out for quite a while now, however some absolutely glaring bugs with the Finder window preferences still exist.
No matter what you do to set preferences for, no matter what you do with the window controls, no matter what mode you view them in... they are never remembered.
This worked fine in 10.5 and previous... where you could select options like "this folder only" or "copy to existing folders" or "make default view". NONE of this works and saves what you do.
This is very uncharacteristic of Apple and their quality control. It's easy to see as a long-time Mac user that they are slipping in these areas quite a bit.
Apple, is there a fix coming for this?

Answer 1

Oh I do wish you were correct. It almost "just works" but not entirely!
The OSX Finder has never really had the base customisability of the OS9 finder. Ii miss being able to open folders in list view and see the following columns nicely sized to fit, in sequence and resortable to my my preference of the moment. My preferred sequence is label, size, name (flowed to 2 or 3 lines, date modified, comments (likewise flowed to at least 2 lines). Of these being able to move the label and sort to the first columns and have them stuck there and at sized to fit minimum column space would expedite most finder tasks.
The other feature that wasn't in OS9 that I wish for is the ability to instantly assign finder labels inside Finder Save-as dialogues-boxes, I often wonder, "What sort of lazy gimps at Apple left this out?" It is unreal that the forgoing omissions remained omitted for more than a decade of development of OSX. The finder lable alone would save me thousands of mouse clicks per month. I've heard it suggested that Spotlight negates these needs, but frankly it is fairly hopeless as a tool, as once you have used it to find the 3800 files that meet the spotlight searchable criteria, it is well nigh impossible to drill down further , or resort the discovered files, -- and more often than not Spotlight seems to miss the file your looking for even if you enter the correct filename in full, e.g., "Applejuice.jpg" located at the root level of the user/Pictures/ folder. In theory it should turn up all of in the following: basic finder search function; sidebar smart folders and spotlight but… !!*#!. And yes I do know all about the Spotlight preferences (both explicit and hidden). I usually end up relying instead on having a folder structure that is logical and doing a manual "eyeball" search for the required file and duplicates. which is frankly a hassle over the many drives I have in use. The failure of the Finder search functions is worrying as it throws doubts upon the reliability of Time Machine.