Setting default Finder window

Is there any way to set all Finder windows to one setting in Leopard? I like to use the old-style sidebar-less windows, but i keep having to change all new folders to this setting after creation. Anyone have an answer?

Yes, lots of other similar posts. I feel the same way, I'm having no luck getting my folders to keep their specific view settings reliably. I think there must be some kind of bug, in addition to the reconfigured (more archaic to me) view options window. Hopefully we'll see a fix soon.

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Can I set a default finder window style?

I would like to set a default Finder window style that will affect all windows, new and old. I am able to set my default style to list, but I want to go beyond that. I want my windows to be lists, with only certain columns visible, I want the columns to be set to specific widths, and I want the windows to open as if the green button in the corner had been pressed.
In Windows it is fairly easy to set a default Explorer window style with this level of setting. Can I do it on my Mac? Some setting I am missing, or some third party program?
Thanks!

boombass wrote:
I tried your command, and after a while the Terminal window gets hung up on:
find: /dev/fd/3: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
Just two of many that you shouldn't be worried about. These will reveal everything I know about them:
ls -al /dev/
ls -al /dev/fd/
I haven't a clue why running this is hanging up on your machine:
sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;
As for why you're you're still having issues after setting up the initial folder, I haven't a clue, since it worked here when I had an issue with it.

Setting default Finder preferences

Hi, I recently upgraded t 10.7.2 and I was wondering if there was a way to set default finder arrange and view preferences. I upgraded form SL and I was able to do this (all finder windows would open in icon view with the files arranged by kind). Is there a way to set these preferences in Lion? I have gone to the View Options and selected Arrange to "Kind" and Sory by to "Name" and then selected "Use as defaults" at the bottom, but these are not maintained in subsequent finder window (they revert back to no settings). Do I have to do this for every single finder page?

So, I ended up erasing and reinstalling and this did not fix the problem (even before I migrated). I downloaded a new file from the App store because I thought my first one was corrupt, but there is not difference. Maybe what I envision is not possible in Lion. Here is what I do to set up my defaults.
Step 1: Open my main directory.
Step 2: Set preferences in view options.
Step 3: Open Alpha. The folders appear to be organized appropriately.
Step 4: Open Users. The files are no longer organized appropriately.
Step 5: Check setting. The option to set default is grayed out and the settings are no longer what I set before.
So, I change these setting and open my user folder and make some test files. The test files do not follow the view options either.
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Is it possible to set a finder window to full screen mode,..

... like mail, itunes and other apps? and if not, why not?
I have to say it took me a bit to get used to Lion, I began complaining all day until I decided to take some time to learn it, and now I like it very much, I see the advantages over 10.6.
But still, there are some things I don't know about, and the window of opportunity to take time to learn more has closed. And I don't know when it'll open again.
So, that's why I have joined the community, because now I'm trying to use everthing on full-screen mode, and as I was setting my desktops to work on a project in which I will be needing a lot of finder windows open with a lot of items each, I instantly asked myself:
Is it possible to set the finder windows to full screen? because I don't see any buttons.
Thanks 4 Your Time
R.D.B.

Thanks Don Archibald,
Yeah, that's what I'm doing at the moment. But I thought it would be nice to have the little full screen button just to press it so.
Besides, I'm still figuring out the finder windows' behaviour. I discovered that if you open a folder from a window that has the toolbar, the new folder would also open with a toolbar, even if you already had it set it up with just the status bar.
And one thing that still enervates me is that if you have a window with two items, and you press the green button to fit the borders up tight, instead of leavin' the 2 items in a horizontal arrangement, it moves one to the bottom and puts a slider. Arrgh.
Another thing I haven't understood is why one folder I have on the dock sometimes opens with a column layout instead of the icon layout I have arranged for it before. Totally random 4 now, can't find the why.
Anyway... I'm going to order some lapel pins about 2 flags I designed for two embassies. Anyone know a good place for doing that?

Changing Default Finder Window

On my old iMac, I was able to change the default Finder window (when you clicked on it in the dock) from my home drive to my desktop, but now I can't remember how to do it. Any tips?
AKA: When I click on Finder in the dock, I don't want it to open up to my user window, I want it to open up to the desktop folder.
Thanks!
Matthew

At the Finder menu bar, go to Finder > Preferences > General.
Under "New Finder windows open:", select the radio button to the right of the current selection and at the pop-up menu that appears, select Other and then select Desktop.

How can I set the finder window to open the same way every time?

Everytime I open Finder it goes back to it's default view which is just too small, but I want to set the finder columns and window so that they open the same exact way every single time. I'm tired of resizing everything.
Currently I have to resize every window and column everytime and I think my work is much slower then when I was on Windows because of it.
Is there a setting, script, file, patch, anything, is there absolutely anything I can do to actually control the Finder views and make them adjust to MY criteria and stay that way...

That is a big negative. That does absolutely nothing other then close my window, next time the finder window is opened then the column widths are small again.
In Windows Explorer all your windows are customizable, how do I do this with Finder?

How to keep default Finder window size and location from Mac server

Working in an office of three people. Mac mini server (not sure of the OS; I think it's Snow Leopard). We each use iMacs with Mavericks. I have my default new Finder window set to open "customers" folder, which resides on the server, in a specific orientation. If either of my co-workers opens "customers" and resizes that window on their machines, it retains that size & location when I open it again on my machine (as I'm sure it does to them after I "fix" my own window).
Is there any way to change this so that one's own machine will remember the window prefs? I mean, we're not opening on the server itself, so in my mind it should not retain the last open position, right?
I know I could set my default folder to Home, then go to customers from the sidebar, but that almost defeats the purpose of the default folder.
thanks in advance!!

Hey Macdaddy,
This happens all the time with our server at work. The server window never opens in the same place twice, and it can be annoying.
There are third-party window management tools out there, but what I did was use a macro program called Keyboard Maestro (since I already owned it).
Among the many things Keyboard Maestro can do is manipulate a window. I created a macro that moves it to a specific point (in my case, the upper left corner of the screen) and then resizes it to a specific width and height in pixels. I then assigned the macro a keyboard shortcut.
Now, when I mount the server, I can use the keyboard shortcut and the window is right where I want it.
There are other programs that just move windows, and I tried a couple. But Keyboard Maestro is more elegant in my opinion, and it does a whole lot more if you choose to go that route.
Hope this helps.
Andy

How to change Default Finder Windows Size?

Hi all:
New Finder windows show Macintosh HD and there is no problem in keeping the size or view options every time I open a new window (command + N).
I can change "New Finder windows show" to another folder and works just as well.
But when I open a folder in a new window (double click on an icon folder) the size of the window is very small and different from the window displayed by using command + N.
Finder saves and applies default view options to all windows without a problem, but not the default size or in other words:
default windows size is different from new finder windows size.
In Snow Leopard I could change default size of all windows holding down the Shift key while dragging and changing the size but in Mountain Lion it does not work.
I have also deleted all files .DS_Store but neither works.
I searched a lot but can not find a solution to this problem.
Thanks.

As far as New Finder Windows (command+N) are concerned, there's no problem.
All other folder's Finder Windows I have not modified manually are displayed with the default size shown in the attached image. That is the window size that I want to modify.
Thanks.

[semi-solved] Cinnamon: Set default new window location?

I'm running Cinnamon and have a shortcut to gnome-panel on the taskbar
when I click it a terminal opens
The problem:
the terminal window is opened on the top left of the screen
I'd like it to open on the bottom right or center of the screen
How can I tell, whatever is responsible for this, to create new windows in the center or bottom right?
semi-solved because there should be a better way than using devilspie but it does the job
Last edited by dalu (2014-06-13 17:26:48)

dalu wrote:
Hey Claire,
do you think it's X11 related or something to do with Cinnamon or.. which window manager does Cinnamon use?
Or rather, do you know which component is responsible for window placement, maybe a hack could be written
Cinnamon uses muffin as it's Window Manager, a fork of Mutter for GNOME. I'd assume that you'd be looking at getting something for muffin to work or using something like SteveK suggested.

Set finder window size default

How can I set the default finder window size? I've got a new iMac and the finder window always opens small. I want it a lot bigger. Interestingly, on my wife's old iMAc and my MBA (both running OS X 10.8.3, same as new iMac) the finder windows open to a much bigger size.

it seems Finder opens to Applications. Sometimes the folder is the same size as the as the last one I closed. Other times it is tiny. I can't seem to spy a pattern.

Finder Window View Options

Hi, How do i go about setting my finder window to always display the same settings?
I basically want Icon view, with the same grid spacing and same icon size with 10pt text in ALL windows , pressing the default button does not set it globally.
Both are different below
http://drp.ly/C3k5w
http://drp.ly/C3Ab2

Setting a Finder view, then clicking the "Use as Defaults" button is a very undependable way to have a global view maintained throughout an entire hard drive, and any connected drives. It will, the first time you navigate your hard drive(s), but as soon as you make a change to a view on-the-fly (ex: via the Finder Toolbar menu button), that new view will be adopted by next opened folder. This is actually handy if you like browser style navigation rather than a more spatial approach.
The only way to keep this behavior from occurring is to open the View Options while in a given folder (Command-J or Finder/View/Show View Options), make your view adjustment, then tick the "Always open in..." check box. Of course, this would be very time consuming if you wanted your entire drive (and any connected drives) to open predictably every time without exception.
My solution, which has been suggested above, is to create a Workflow app with the view settings you like, make sure to tick the "Apply Changes to Sub-folders". Drop your hard drive, or folder, you want to apply the view settings to onto it. It will run, opening every folder and making the view adjustment. It runs very fast, but could take some time, depending on the number of sub-folders. I would also not recommend running it on the top level Library folder, or System folder.
Here's a recent thread on the subject...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2404700
And an older thread with a longer explanation from me...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8354246
Hope that helps...
--Robb

How do I make a new finder window open 'inside' my home folder?

In finder I have set new finder windows to open my home folder, however it is actually opening the Users folder. So if I press down, it will select the next user in the list rather than selecting the first folder in my home directory.
This doesn't happen for any other folders. e.g. If I set it to open my documents folder and I press down, the first document in the folder will be selected.
Any idea how I can get this to work properly?

James Priestley wrote:
In finder I have set new finder windows to open my home folder, however it is actually opening the Users folder.
Double check in Finder preferences that you actually have set it to your home folder because your entire description is consistent with it being set to the Users folder. I don't see how it can be set to 'home' and open any folder other than that one.
Can you post a screenshot of the Finder preferences | General setting?

'save as' finder window settings and size (on mac)

Hi there ~
Whenever saving/downloading any type of file from any firefox tab, and the 'save as' window opens and I choose where I want the file to be downloaded to, the finder window columns are really tight and narrow, cutting off the folder names so I constantly have to stretch out that first column so I can see the folder names .. this only happens in firefox and the finder window is always squooshed, even if I adjust it and then close/relaunch firefox .. how can I permanently set the finder window settings to avoid having to manually adjust it each time?
thanks

Tom Dignam wrote:
Am I one of a very few who feel compelled to verify a filing after a "Save as" command by having >reopen the Finder?
Probably not the only one... the OS 9 Finder way did slow things down a bit. But it may be a helpful feature for some. Best if you could activate or not. You can file a feature request here Mac OS X Feedback
-mj

Save Multiple Finder Window Arrangements?

Is it possible to save Finder Window arrangements?
I would like to save different sets of Finder Window layouts and switch between them?
(Mavericks)
thx

Try dragging this file to the desktop and reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

How can I set a default view option for all finder windows in Lion?

I am talking about the icon size and grid spacing.

Open up a Finder window, CMD+J, set it up as desired, and click on Use as Defaults. Do note that will only apply to windows that you've not opened before. If you want to apply that to all previously opened windows, you need to remove all the .DS_Store files which store that data for each previously opened folder. To do that, launch the Terminal app (in /Applications/Utilities/), copy & paste this command into the window that pops up, and hit the return key:
sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;
At the Password: prompt, carefully enter your admin password, since nothing shows up on the screen, and hit the return key. When the default prompt, usually the $ sign, pops up, quit the Terminal app, restart, and open a Finder window, set it up the way you want, and click on Use as Defaults. All subsequently opened or created folders should retain that view.

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