[mgehman]

Help, my finder view preferences will not "stick" on some folders. I have them set to arrange by name. When I restart they revert back to the previous settings, which in unarranged. This is most annoying in the Applications folder. I have tried trashing finder and system preferences all to no avail. I scanned with norton, diskwarrior, and tech tool. No help. I even copied my disk reformated the disk and then carbon copied it back. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[Truepop]

Could you define say how you are arranging by name and what version of Mac OS X you are using?

in any version there are two things you can do. one don't use global settings in command+J. for some reason on my computer the folder will be scrambled until I go to View -> Arrange -> Name after I have deleted the DS_Store files within the folder with Cocktail.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10909

The second one is use something like Path Finder to view your files and apps

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6371

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I really wish Apple would make up their mind. the finder is between a file browser and a spatial system of viewing files. in one you have a list of things like a global arrangement by say name or something and in the other you have folders and you put things there and there they should stay in the order and spot you put it.

personally I prefer the finder to be a file browser or at least have a way to "clean" the system of any and all user defined placement that will translate to CDs and over the network.

[mgehman]

Originally posted by Truepop:
Could you define say how you are arranging by name and what version of Mac OS X you are using?

in any version there are two things you can do. one don't use global settings in command+J. for some reason on my computer the folder will be scrambled until I go to View -> Arrange -> Name after I have deleted the DS_Store files within the folder with Cocktail.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10909

The second one is use something like Path Finder to view your files and apps

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6371

--

I really wish Apple would make up their mind. the finder is between a file browser and a spatial system of viewing files. in one you have a list of things like a global arrangement by say name or something and in the other you have folders and you put things there and there they should stay in the order and spot you put it.

personally I prefer the finder to be a file browser or at least have a way to "clean" the system of any and all user defined placement that will translate to CDs and over the network.

I am using OS 10.3.3 I tried deleting DS_Store but still having no success. The weird thing is that as far as I can remember it was fine until earlier this week. It sounds like a corrupted preference file, but after a thorough cleaning of the preference files at the root and home folders it still won't stay arranged. This is really annoying. Any other ideas. Thanks