More finder problems/stupidty

so this is a mac first for me. you can have two windows of the same folder open at the same time? you open the window through the folder icon and it opens up. you open up the alias and it opens up again in the wrong window size and location,
!http://www.allsolutions.net/grafx/doublejulie.jpg!
have folder aliases been obsoleted?
Message was edited by: since1994

what a trip!
well i tried what you said, but i could tell the plist didnt get redone. it was still 16 k. (i have a quickeys shortcut to open the preferences folder.) and nothing had changed when i logged back in.
so i tried opening it with bbedit.. there was a LOT of wierd stuff in there. couldnt save a copy to the desk top. i dragged a copy to the desktop and couln't edit that either. couldn't edit a re-named copy of it on the desktop, either. kept getting an error. (MacOS Error code: -4960)
anyway i quit the finder while the finder plist file was open in bbedit. then I COULD save it. then when i fired up the finder again all my icons were waaay large, and moved all around. lol and i could tell my prefs were reset.
i'm only mentioning all this for possible future reference, cuz it doesn't seem to be that easy to get rid of that finder plist any more. i think it saves itself somewhere.
alas, it didnt fix my problem... but i'm a firm believer of flushing things out once in a while anyway... any time i get a new computer or hard drive i start from scratch with a clean install.
i cant remember how i got rid of those alternating colors in list view, though. haha

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fr?d?ric Miserey" <frederic@n...>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 8:35 AM
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