Lion keeps resizing my windows ?..

HI GUYS !
something has been happening to me lately that ends up being a real pain in the *** - i don't know if it's Lion, my iMac, a bad planetary alignment or what...
lets say i have a few folders on my desktop & during the course of the day i open & close said folders, drag things in & out, open some of those files, etc.....
i have adjusted the size of the folder's window to my liking ( as i do to my application's windows.. ) but as i re-open them later they ALWAYS manage to change the size even though i closed them at the size i want/like them !?..
  this also happens when i ''open'' my hardrives but not when i open my apps !? even though i ALWAYS close them at the size i want them to be
  can anyone shed some light why this happens & if there is a way of it NOT happening ? it gets VERY boring real fast after a while....feels like i'm ALWAYS adjusting the size of the bloody things
  any help will be very appreciated, many thanks
  Nuno

jimhere wrote:
Happens for me in 10.7.2, but only on a couple windows. Strange that it remebers previous locations and sizes for some but not all...
Probably a corrupt .DS_Store file. You could try deleting the .DS_Store file in the highest folder whose subfolders are forgetful, then rebooting.
A simple way to make hidden files visible is to run this AppleScript, then reboot:
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles true"
After deleting the .DS_Store file, change true to false, run it, and reboot to reverse this setting.

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