Old behavior seen in 10.6.7

Question

Hi,
1) Back in 2008  I posted a thread about how when I updated a Text Edit file on my desktop, it would make a certain folder unrelated to it, jump or move. I am now seeing that behavior with 10.6.7! Here is the thread for my issue back then:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/7029701#7029701
Maybe it's a bug with Text Edit, maybe it is due to some app or hack I have*. Who knows. It doesn't bother me too much but I was amused that it reappeared. Hmm, or maybe it is because I added Rosetta so I could run some old PPC apps from my G4?
* I can list them if you like.
The Destop is fairly open, has 21 items on it = 3.99gb. HD is 500gb, 167gb  used, 331gb free.
2) Another thing that I might as well throw in in this thread: How do I get all folders to obey what I have set as the default view: List view at 16 pt type? I clicked on the HD icon (I put it on  desktop. I'm old school. I like seeing an icon for it...) Set the view in the Finder and made it my default. New windows seem to be obeying this and are opening correctly. Nested older windows though are still coming up as the system default when I got this computer a week ago, at 12 pt type. I can change every one I see but I would think if I told the OS to open windows at 16 pt, then it would. I have set a few windows to icon view but otherwise ALL windows are or should be viewed as List and in 16 pt type. Experience has shown that the OS is not always capable of remembering these things...
That's all for now.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers,
John L
(who's been using Macs since 1997 or so. OS 7.5)

Answer 1

For general speeds issues here's what you want to try:
PRAM/NVRAM Reset: Turn on the computer holding CMD-Option-P-R (Command-Option-P-R) and keep holding until you get a second start up chime (more are perfectly alright)
Clear the caches: Go to each users home folder by opening up finder. Go into the Library folder and find a folder called Caches. Drag that into the trash. Do it for all users, restart and empty trash (files are still active so you can't delete until restart)
Then you want to go into Safari on each User and click on the word Safari in the top right hand corner. Go down to Reset Safari and have everything checked but: Reset topsites, clear history, remove other autofill form text, remove passwords
Shut down your computer, on boot it may be a bit slower because of all the resets it's auto regenerating a bunch of files, but over all your system should be faster
Specifically for you two, the caches folder removal is the most important