Make all windows view Global?

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Timan

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My folders in osx are messed up they keep going back to view this window only on the icon sizes. is there a way to make EVERY folder view in global?

Thanks
Tim
 
Try reading this thread for an answer. :)

(plug)Particularly read the *ahem* last post -- I think it's a better solution than removing all .DS_Store files...(/plug)
 
The find command finds all files and performs the named command.

So with the
Code: 
find / -name .DS_Store -exec sudo chmod 666 {} \;
command, you are finding all .DS_Store files and running sudo chmod 666 on them. The 666 means that everyone (user, group, and other) has read/write permissions for the file. Let me know if you want me to dissect the rest of the command.

Or the short answer: I already gave you the command to affect all files. :)
 
i'm not talkin about it not saving hte settings i just would like every folder to be the same so i don't have to set up everyone by one by one by one...
 
nkuvu: This is a decidedly different matter than a permissions problem. He wants all of his windows to respect his global views, but to do that, he needs to set them all individually.

Currently, it's not possible to force all windows to use global settings (they should default to global settings not individual ones). Hopefully Apple fixes this with OS X 10.2: you should probably send feedback to Apple via http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/ .
 
Misunderstanding -- my bad.

What happens if you remove all the .DS_Store files (that contain the icon size and position and all that) then try to set the global options? Obviously if some folders are maintaining their old settings, they're still reading the information from their .DS_Store file, right?

It's still a bug, as they shouldn't be reading from those files if you set the global option, but...
 
for a temporary ugly solution, maybe you could set one window, and then copy its DS_Store to every directory. would that work?

sudo find / -type d -exec cp ~/.DS_Store {} \;

what do you think?
 
Some Mac Genius must know a code or something to make this work......

This is definetley a feature I'd like to see...... like so badly!


Joe:)
 
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