View Options Still Broken

View options was broken in Lion (some carried over, others became a white background with greyed out options). I was hoping against hope that this would get fixed in mountain Lion, but my User folder's View Options, for example, is still broken. What will it take to fix this? Can anyone help?

Can you explain what it is you think is broken?
Ok, I think I might have figured out what you are describing.
Sorry to inform you, but you can't set any backgrounds if you have an arrangement set. Arrangement must be set to None in order to set a background color or picture. And, it can only be done in Icon view.
There is nothing "broken." Just too difficult to implement, I imagine.
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Got to your Desktop folder in the Finder sidebar, command i will open the info pane.
What are your permissions here? Unlock the pad lock and Change to read write.
Are you experiencing other problems?
Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs
http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

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OK, so I go into my hard drive root (where the library, users, system folders are). I go to the View menu and choose Show View Options. In that small panel, I check the Show Item info checkbox so that it shows me all the info about folders. I enable it and close the window. Now under all the folders, it says how many files are indside them. All the numbers were correct and I was happy until I noticed that the printing underneath the Applications folder said that there were no items inside. So, I went into the applications folder and all my apps are still there (phew!) . I logged out and logged in to see if that fixed it but NOPE, it still had "Not items" under the Applications folder. Whats goin' on?
I know that this may be a small problem with nothing to worry about but I'm afraid that all the other options may be going crazy as well. Is there a pref file I can trash?
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You must not have noticed the option at the top of the View Options box. The radio button for "All windows" must have been on. So you ended up making a global change. Perform a View Options command again and reverse it by turning off the "Show Item" info with the same "All windows" option on. That will clear that setting from all other folders. In the future, watch that option carefully and make sure to set it first.

My playback screen in iMovie '11 is always blank or a still, broken picture. How do I fix this?

Picture of my screen: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/screenshot20120623at929.png/
Sometimes it ends up like this: a still, broken picture: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/688/screenshot20120623at929.png/
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buenrodri wrote
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I have a lot playlists and don't want to change every single one of them separatly.
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phelpy wrote: Ive tried using another charger and the same thing happened, no green light.
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manilx wrote:
V.K. wrote:
manilx wrote:
The problem is only on SOME folders, like the Utilities one. Other keep the settings just fine!
did you run the commands I gave you? you can reset only the particular folders but then you need to delete just the .DS_store files for those folders. all finder windows should be closed and this has to be done from terminal (or using Onyx). for the Utilities folder it would be
rm /Applications/Utilities/.DS_Store
killall Finder
Yes, I deleted the DS-Store file from the Utilities folder and the plist and killed Finder.
was the folder closed when you did it? that's important. if it was and this is still happening then I don't know what's going on.
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