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thanks guys! your help is much appreciated -- but i may not be being clear.
when i create a NEW folder
shft+cmnd+n
it wont open in the right pre-planned way/format
ie, i want a NEW folder to automatically open in say....LIST VIEW with the 2nd column being SIZE
instead, a NEWLY CREATED folder-window always starts in icon view with the darned toolbar on the side. i then have to alter each one. arg!
this even happens with my trash folder-window every darned time i restart my computer -- it simply can't remember i want things in non-toolbar/ window sized this big/ etc
i do understand how to MODIFY a newly created folder window to one's parameters. once i fix how the folder window is displayed, yes, it keeps its "form"
But: what i'm wanting to do here is pre-set how a new window will appear. --and fix how the danged trash window always appears re size/ etc
i make 50 new folder windows a day, so you can see how having to customize each one -- is a huge bother
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re: the icons.
when i do want a folder displayed by icons, i haven't found the grid to be consistent at all.
it's mainly about putting a new file into the "gridded" folder.
in comes the new file, and the grid suddenly MOVES. off a few pixels
i can't keep icons arranged by any criteria -- i need them to be spacially collected the way my brain works. it's not as easy as being alphabetical.
so when i have, say,
3 icons stacked
then a space below
then another 2 icons grouped below the space
...that order is important to me
when i add another icon to the lower stack, about 50% of the time, the danged window takes the NEW icon, puts it into a NEW GRID, making a mockery of the old icons' collective grid.
the NEW GRID now reigns, and i have to carefully drag each old icon out of place so they now snap back to the NEW grid.
the biggest annoyance here is that if i drag more than 4 icon out of place so they snap to the new grid -- or if i use CLEAN UP -- sometimes the window throws the icons all over the place -- literally into new columns out of view -- i have to resize the danged window and reset everything. really a pain....
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