OS X Mavericks Finder Bugs?

Upon updating my iMac to OS X Mavericks I noticed that Cover Flow contained a few annoyances and I have yet to find any discussions about this particular one. I've always used Cover Flow since I migrated to Mac but this seems specific to Mavericks. Everytime I open my Home folder the icons in the actual black scrollable area of Cover Flow would always resize to 180px x 140px.
I can resize them after I open the folder and that would make them the specified size until I close the window, but it would revert back upon opening it again. I even set my preferred sizea as the default in the Show View Options dialog box but that amounts to nothing.
I was wondering if anyone else has this issue, and if so, have you found a fix? I've sent a bug report to Apple already so I'm eager to see what they include in the next software update as well as your personal reports on this too.
Thanks in advance!

Hi,
From memory, it went like this:
In Finder, I have an icon in the toolbar marked 'Arrange'. If you don't have it, go to Finder and under the View menu select 'Customise Toolbar'.The customise panel appears and you can drag and drop the Arrange icon onto your toolbar.
Click on the down arrow on the Arrange icon and you will see a drop down menu. Click on an option e.g. name (i.e. arrange folder contents by name). This should make your invisible files appear. I had to do this for most of the folders in Favorites on the Finder toolbar. One or two were ok anyway for some reason.
i hope this makes sense and answers your question. Sorry if I have used incorrect technical terms!

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