Global View Option Problems!!!

In Tiger you had the option to choose "This Window Only" or "All Windows." In Leopard you can select "Use as Defaults," for the view you are in such as icons,coverflow, etc. The problem is it only works for some windows. If you try to change the size in the window there is no way to get back your global settings. Am I missing something?

Yay, I found it! (Your message prompted me to look further.)
If you hold down OPTION the "Use as Defaults" button changes to "Restore to Defaults". This gives you an easy way to set a folder back to the global settings.
Really if you mess with anything in the view options pane, it is being set JUST for that individual folder and is equal to Tiger's "This Window Only". The reason that the defaults button is often grayed out is because that folder is already set to use the global settings.
They made this feature a lot more confusing than it was in Tiger.
So the only main functionality change seems to be that the view setting (icon/list/column/coverflow) is now set globally instead of per window:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/12#divided

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View Options Problem

Here's a quick question, I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or not. I was trying to set up a group of windows with different coloured backgrounds for organizing projects. Using the view options, I made sure that the "This window only" button was checked and then I selected the different colours for each window. However when I went back into those windows the colours had changed. I then selected one window and opened and closed it multiple times, and each time I opened the window the background colour was different. So how do I get the background for a specific window to always stay the same colour?

The iTS pages have been this way for ages and it bugs the heck out of me, too.
Provide itunes feedback:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html

Itunes view options problem

Apologies if this has been posted before....
Is there any way of having a default setting for the library columns (artist, album, year etc)?
i want to have specific ones on display, but itunes keeps switching back every time I do something, like play a track.
Also, is there any way of changing the names of the columns? I don't suppose there is, but thought I would ask just in case.....
Thanks

Psilocybe wrote:
So, holding option down while moving data into iTunes does NOT reference.
what do you mean by reference ?
if you have +*copy files to ... when adding to library+* check marked in preferences > advanced and option-drag content from e.g. an external HD into an open iTunes window, iTunes will index the path to the file's location, but not copy the file physically into the iTunes music (or media) folder.
Test and try to verify.
i'm using the above technique to add my lossless music files (stored on an external) to my library.
It's actually click + SHIFT to reference.
again, i'm not sure what you mean by reference.
Don't you think there would be a view option (CMD J) for referenced data?
cmd j brings up *view options* for me.
JGG

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

A little uncanny situation since release of FIREFOX RC is that 'Reload option which used to come under view option is no longer visible,but appears as an icon in toolbar...which sometimes doesn't work'. Please try to fix it if its only my problem

I have been using FIREFOX since a long time back and am quite happy with FIREFOX 4.
But a little uncanny situation since release of FIREFOX RC is that 'Reload which used to come under view option is no longer visible,but appears as an icon(button) in toolbar...which sometimes doesn't work(becomes blur and sometimes firefox hangs)'.
Please try to fix it if its only my problem or include it in next release.Thanks!

I have been using FIREFOX since a long time back and am quite happy with FIREFOX 4.
But a little uncanny situation since release of FIREFOX RC is that 'Reload which used to come under view option is no longer visible,but appears as an icon(button) in toolbar...which sometimes doesn't work(becomes blur and sometimes firefox hangs)'.
Please try to fix it if its only my problem or include it in next release.Thanks!

Problems with "show view options window"

In Snow Leopard when I click Finder>View> Show View Options. The window that pops up looks different form what is supposed to be, is like this.There is no "use as default" button. I tried everything, restarting in safe disk mode, deleting all .DS_Store files, deleting the com.apple.finder.plist form the Preferences of the User without any success. Can anyone help? Am I left with just having the re-install the system?
Thanks a lot for the help

Although the Desktop is sometimes treated as if it were a Finder window, it is a special case. And, in this case, the View Options window for the Desktop (which you have depicted) will not display the "Always open" choice, since Icon view is the only view for the Desktop; hence, there is o Save as Defaults button for it either.
However, if you open the Desktop in a Finder window, such as by clicking the item Desktop in the Sidebar of a Finder (folder) window so that the Desktop is replicated in a separate window, you can open the View Options screen for that 'folder' and have those settings available.

Apply View Options globally?

I want to add the "Track #" column to all my playlists. (My Smart Playlists no longer sort by track number by default -- they used to, but now it's only by track name, album name, etc.) I have lots of playlists, so doing it one-by-one would be a drag. Is there a way to change the view options for all current and future playlists?
Thanks.
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+Is there a way to change the view options for all current and future playlists?+
For the current ones, you have to go into each one.
Future ones should take whatever is set in your main library. So if you want track numbers to be displayed, make sure the main library is displaying them.
You can't change the store view, though. It has Apple defaults set on it and you always have to go back and add anything extra you want to see, such as Year.

Something weird happening with View Options....

Hi!,
OK, so I go into my hard drive root (where the library, users, system folders are). I go to the View menu and choose Show View Options. In that small panel, I check the Show Item info checkbox so that it shows me all the info about folders. I enable it and close the window. Now under all the folders, it says how many files are indside them. All the numbers were correct and I was happy until I noticed that the printing underneath the Applications folder said that there were no items inside. So, I went into the applications folder and all my apps are still there (phew!) . I logged out and logged in to see if that fixed it but NOPE, it still had "Not items" under the Applications folder. Whats goin' on?
I know that this may be a small problem with nothing to worry about but I'm afraid that all the other options may be going crazy as well. Is there a pref file I can trash?
Any help is appreciated
Indragie

Hi Indragie,
You must not have noticed the option at the top of the View Options box. The radio button for "All windows" must have been on. So you ended up making a global change. Perform a View Options command again and reverse it by turning off the "Show Item" info with the same "All windows" option on. That will clear that setting from all other folders. In the future, watch that option carefully and make sure to set it first.

Finder -- View/Show View Options Missing

I am going nutz trying to figure out why I don't have the "Show View Options" under the View menu in finder.
I did a search here and found what I thought to be the problem:
+ Re: Cant open 'Show view options' under View+
+Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:57 AM in response to: Joey Goes +
+This is the solution if the problem is that you cannot see the Show View Options:+
+Some kind of application that you installed, even if you don't know it did it, changed a setting in the finder preference file.+
+The solution: Go to home/library/preferences and open com.apple.finder.plist, then scroll to the bottom of the file and you will see and option named: ViewOptions-inmutable, make sure the checkbox is not selected, or that the boolean value is the opposite of the one it has right now. So if it has TRUE change it to FALSE. Save the document and use the CommandOptionEscape combination to see the Force Quit Apps windows, select the finder and click the Relaunch button.+
+MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.5)+
Unfortunately, I could not even find "ViewOption-immutable" in the file when opened in Property List Editor.
So, I created a new user to see if the problem was global, and the Show View Options was there for this use. So I copied that users finder.plist into the shared folder, logged back into my user and replaced my finder.plist with the one that was correctly displaying for the new user. Relaunched finder and still nothing.
Any ideas?

Update: I got to the office and decided to check some of the other users in the office. Sure enough, all the other users in the office have the same issue. We use Portable Home Directories as network users. So I checked the Workgroup Manager and I'm still perplexed because none of the users have any preferences being managed. Is this a bug with PHD?

Seperate view options for each folder? ie Apps, Downloads, Movies etc

Hey Mac community. I'm an experienced mac user, have been all my life, but I have a question I am hoping one of you can answer. I like to use column view in the Finder and I want to sort the Applications folder by Name and the Downloads folder by Date Created. Even with the appropriate folder selected, using View Options to change the sorting criteria affects every folder. Is there a way around this?
Thanks,
Michael

Hey Michael,
I'm also a long time Mac user, way back before OSX. I responded to another thread a day or so ago on a similar subject. It's kind of a long post, but you might find it interesting/helpful. Basically, how an old Mac user approaches the 10.5 Finder (which I've grown to really like, btw).
Here's the thread link...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1766829&tstart=60
Here's the post I put up there...
"Re: Global Finder Window Problems..."
This is actually the default viewing system in 10.5. I little weird at first, but read on for my take on why I think 10.5 is much nicer than 10.4 and preceding OXSs.
I started using Macs in the pre-OSX days, so was used to the completely dependable and always predictable "spatial" Finder of OS9 and down. Spatial meaning, folders all opening in new windows with every window position, view setting, icon position, even scroll bar (if there is one) remembered without exception. Also, no browser mode at all.
So I tried to recreate the old OS9 default folder view in 10.4... First, create a desktop folder, set to icon view, turn off Toolbar/Sidbar, which causes nested folders to open in their own new window. Great! Now all folders within created within that folder adopt that view, right? They do, but not if you drag one to the desktop, at that point the Toolbar/Sidebar magically reappears. It also reappears if you navigate to the same folder via Dock's cascading menu system (assuming you've placed a hard drive or folder there). Another 10.4 oddity...if you have Finder set to open at the top level "Computer" when activated from it's Dock icon, it would never remember icon size and position. Sometimes even forgetting window size/position (at least my install of 10.4 did this). On and on....life with the forgetful, stubborn OSX Finder.
However, 10.5 is fantastic at remembering folder view settings. Only thing is, that's not turned on by default. Instead, the default behavior is for folders to adopt the previous folder view setting. This is actually not a bad thing if you prefer to use the browser style navigation the Finder offers. You alter a view setting, list view for example, browse a while, then change it to icon, continue browsing, etc, etc... Thats 10.5's default behavior. To make a specific folder remember a view state, all you have to do is set the view you want, open the Show View Options and check the Always Open In... check box. Now, it will very dependably remember it's view state.
Personally, I've always had my own ideas about how the Finder should behave, and have suggested them to Apple. I've always thought there should be a separate Finder/Browser app that boots up from the Dock Finder icon. It always opens with the Toolbar/Sidebar on (ie: all folders are navigated to via a single browser window). You set it to some browser friendly view (ie: list, column), and it retains that view state as you browse no matter what view settings you may have set for an individual folder. That's the Finder/Browser. To see unique pre-folder view settings, you open the hard drive icon from the Desktop. It opens with the Toolbar/Sidebar off (ie: all folders open in new windows). You could consider this to not even being the "Finder application". Just think of it as "manually looking at the contents of the hard drive". As you drill down, opening new windows, you can create view states which are always remembered when opened via double click the hard drive from the Desktop.
I attempted to created this behavior in 10.4, but the Finder was just forgetful enough, and stubborn enough, not to cooperate fully (see explanations above). However, in 10.5 it works beautifully. I first set the Finder Preferences to open "Computer", opened the Finder via the Dock icon and set it to Column view. From re-boot to re-boot, this set up is remembered exactly, even the window size and position. This is great for browser navigation.
For "manually exploring" (or as some referred to as "spatial"), you must first tell every window on your hard drive to "Always Open In...." whatever you want you default state to be (other wise it will just open in the state in whatever the most resent folder was opened in). I created a script for this with the settings as...Toolbar/Sidebar off & icon view. I then ran the script on the entire drive, and all sub-folders. Over time, I've changed the settings of folders I want to open differently (mainly list as apposed to icon), making sure I open the View Options and rechecking "Always open in..." to whatever adjustment I made. My drive is in great order now and remembers every view detail. Any windows I don't mess with default to a completely predictable "Icon View".
So 10.5 gives me the best of both worlds. Very reliable spatial (ie: old fashion manually opening window after window....handy for dragging files around the hard drive), and super streamlined browsing...good for navigating to and opening files quickly.
My 3 cents...sorry for the long post.
--Robb

OS X 10.8 cant remember the View Options in Finder

so that's not the only problem that i got after the uprade but it's really annoying that every time i move files, like from downloads to pictures, the pictures folder's view options are messed up and shows that "Sort by: none" thing
p.s. sorry for broken english i'm trying as hard as i can

OK, so here we go: Go to Finder, Preferences, Sidebar, and click those folders that you want to show in the left panel of the Finder. When all the folders you want are in the Sidebar, close Finder Preferences.
The sort feature in Finder is not Global, so you need to sort Folders you want to view in the order you need them.

How can I turn on the Compatibility View Option?

In viewing a vendor's online reporting, I noticed that the report's header appears on the right, while the report's content appear on the left, creating a confusing viewing.
The vendor has recommended that I turn on the Compatibility View Option, but I cannot find this option anywhere.
Would someone direct me to the section where I can turn on the Compatibility View Option?
Thank you!

You can try these steps in case of issues with web pages:
You can reload web page(s) and bypass the cache to refresh possibly outdated or corrupted files.
*Hold down the Shift key and left-click the Reload button
*Press "Ctrl + F5" or press "Ctrl + Shift + R" (Windows,Linux)
*Press "Command + Shift + R" (Mac)
Clear the cache and cookies only from websites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
*Firefox/Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Cached Web Content: "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
*Firefox/Tools > Options > Privacy > "Use custom settings for history" > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode|Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions (Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions) or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem.
*Switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance
*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

How can I batch change the view options of multiple playlists?

I would like to select multiple playlists and batch change their view options; seems like an obvious feature that should be there, but it does not seem to be there. I know of Assimilate View Options v2.2 in Doug's AppleScripts, but this is not what I want, since AWO requires you to do the change playlist by playlist, i.e., not in batch mode (and I have hundreds of playlists ...). Any idea? Please answer privately at [email protected] since I do not read this forum regularly. Thanks in advance for your help!

did you also check out the following script ?
[_*Change Hidden iTunes Preferences v2.4*_|http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=changehiddenprefs]
This application will allow you to invoke hidden iTunes preferences:
Show "Library" playlist
*Changing view setting is global*
Allow half-stars in ratings
Hide "Ping" buttons
Show/hide arrow links -- to either search the iTunes Store or search your library
Load complete iTunes Store preview before playing
Create playlists for purchased song collections
Play songs while importing or converting
Create file names with track number
Maintain grid view for Search results
Option-click zoom button for Mini Player
Show buttons horizontally

View options in Mail (incl. Exchange!)

For those with an Exchange account:
When browsing emails in preview mode before double clicking to create a new window, the words are not wrapping and I cannot read the full context without first opening up the email in a separate window. It doesn't affect my other accounts other than the one that is associated with Exchange. Any tweaks to fix the problem?
General View question:
I've upgraded from snow leopard and I used to have the preview pane on the bottom portion with a list of emails above it but it appears I can only have the preview pane to the far right. Is there no longer a view option to place the preview pane on the bottom?
Thanks to all.

There's no setting to do this

I have been taking screenshots on my mac book pro and they have been saving to my desktop. However when i try to move them into a folder, they don't move at all! I have changed my setting in view options to 'none' but they still don't move?

I have been taking screenshots on my mac book pro and they have been saving to my desktop. However when i try to move them into a folder, they don't move at all! I have changed my setting in view options to 'none' but they still don't move?

Got to your Desktop folder in the Finder sidebar, command i will open the info pane.
What are your permissions here? Unlock the pad lock and Change to read write.
Are you experiencing other problems?
Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

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