Finder Window View Options

Hi, How do i go about setting my finder window to always display the same settings?
I basically want Icon view, with the same grid spacing and same icon size with 10pt text in ALL windows , pressing the default button does not set it globally.
Both are different below
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Setting a Finder view, then clicking the "Use as Defaults" button is a very undependable way to have a global view maintained throughout an entire hard drive, and any connected drives. It will, the first time you navigate your hard drive(s), but as soon as you make a change to a view on-the-fly (ex: via the Finder Toolbar menu button), that new view will be adopted by next opened folder. This is actually handy if you like browser style navigation rather than a more spatial approach.
The only way to keep this behavior from occurring is to open the View Options while in a given folder (Command-J or Finder/View/Show View Options), make your view adjustment, then tick the "Always open in..." check box. Of course, this would be very time consuming if you wanted your entire drive (and any connected drives) to open predictably every time without exception.
My solution, which has been suggested above, is to create a Workflow app with the view settings you like, make sure to tick the "Apply Changes to Sub-folders". Drop your hard drive, or folder, you want to apply the view settings to onto it. It will run, opening every folder and making the view adjustment. It runs very fast, but could take some time, depending on the number of sub-folders. I would also not recommend running it on the top level Library folder, or System folder.
Here's a recent thread on the subject...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2404700
And an older thread with a longer explanation from me...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8354246
Hope that helps...
--Robb

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Not exactly, no; but the principle is the same: the child inherits the parent's characteristics.
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