How to auto remember folder view settings in finder. its driving me crazy!

Is there any way i can have finder NOT apply the view settings of the current folder to all folders opened after the current folder. It gets very annoying!

You can't change the overall behavior, but you can customize individual folders so that they will remember to always open in a particular view even if other folders are subsequently opened in a different view.
For each folder you want to "customize," open its Finder window, select the view you want, then type command-J and click the box at the top for "Always open in xxx view". That command refers to "this folder", not "all folders".
Folders that have not been customized in this way will open in the same view that was in effect for the previously opened folder. The box for "Use as defaults" at the bottom of the View Option window does not change this behavior - checking it appears rather to mean: "IF a future new folder is displayed in the same view as this one, THEN that view will have the same internal parameters (text size, etc) as this window does."

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Windows 8.1 Each folder view settings not saved what i can do.I
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I'm not aware of any 3rd-party utility that can do all of that, or even much of it.
There is a work-around that will take care of most of it.
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I've done that. I have all my folders set to open in Icon view except my Music folder, which is set for List view, but I still have the problem with the settings not sticking.
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I've done that. I have all my folders set to open in Icon view except my Music folder, which is set for List view, but I still have the problem with the settings not sticking.
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I just bought Adobe Elements Photshop and Premier 11. I spent 2 to 3 hours getting my picture video library into Adobe's organizer. I had some problems with duplicate picture (that I wanted to be there - so I had to rename them) and a couple pictures with corrupted metadata. After I got all that sorted out I am a bit miffed about the folder view on Adob'es organizer.
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Perhaps it’s a design feature to speed up the Organizer launch.
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we run 10.4 tiger server and have the problem that if 10.5 leopard clients connect to the share their changes to the folder view become the new default for everyone connecting after them. with 10.4 clients the default folder view is looked to the settings of the admin.
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It's "show view options" in English. Also obtained by typing CMD+J
Those only apply to the top-level folder. Each folder you open uses whatever you've elected to use as the defaults. Select a folder, CMD+J, set the view as you desire, click on Use as Default button. That setting will be used for all windows that you open in the future that have never been opened previously. All other windows that you opened will retain whatever view you previously selected for them.
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Mac 101: Mac Essentials,
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MacTips, and
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Quick Assist,
Welcome to the Switch To A Mac Guides,
Take Control E-books, and
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Every time I save a file from PS into a particular folder on my desktop, the view settings for that folder get reset to defaults.
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I open and close this folder from my desktop many times a day and the view stays the same, but as soon as I save a file out of PS and navigate to that folder from the save dialog box the view is reset to "thumbnails" again; which would be ok if it only showed up that way while in PS but once this happens it changes the view even for when I open the folder from the desktop.
This does not happen with any other program, only PS. I'm using windows 7 pro 64-bit.
It's worth noting that if I change the view settings from withing the save dialog box, those changes are not reflected when I open the folder from desktop.
Also, once I make the changes, PS will keep the settings for all subsequent save operations, even after closing and re-opening the program. But once I reboot I'm back to square one.

Photoshop has no control over that. That is an OS setting, and open/save are OS dialogs (not really controlled by Photoshop).

OT: Win XP: Make Explorer remember folder view

If every other XP user already knows this I apologize.
For months I've been annoyed with opening a folder in Explorer and finding it's view changed from what I expected: Icons instead of Details; Details instead of Thumbnails; etc. I ran across this while searching for something else a few days ago.
Apparently the default number of folders that XP will remember is 400 and once that is exceeded folder view is up for grabs. A simple registry mod increasing the number to 8000 has kept everything behaving perfectly ever since.
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Bob

Colin,
I've never been able to get the apply to subfolders to do anything. Have not tried it since this update. It does not make File Open/Save as remember the last setting. Mine's thumbnails no matter what but others seem to get the opposite.
Brian,
Good to know. Do you remember if it does that annoying reset or just ups the number?
Have not used Powertoys since Windows 95. I think I downloaded it a while back but never installed.
Hope it lets you choose a number of folders since 8000 seems a bit high for me and I'm not great at dword values. I only have a few over 4400 and could probably reduce that with a little organization.
Bob

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Um, folders, they are found in the gui.
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"all windows"
Unfortunately that did not work.
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