New window troubles...

[Trip]

Here's the problem, under the Finder preferences I have "Always open folders in new window" unchecked, and yet when ever I open a new folder, or double click one or anything it opens it up in a new window! Does anybody know what could be causing this? Or how I could reset the "Always open folders in new window" option through terminal?

Any help would be appriciated!

 

[skyle]

I've tried to trash my preferences, to no avail. You'll notice that none of the settings you choose in the finder preferences will change anything. Is the finder looking to another user or default profile?

 

[bobw]

You'll notice that none of the settings you choose in the finder preferences will change anything

Not true, mine works as they should.

Log in as another user, or creat a new user account and see if the problem remains.

You'll need to find the correct preference file to trash.

 

[bobw]

This is from http://www.macosxhints.com and I've tried it and seems to work;

I was installing the Gnu PGP tools recently, and stumbled onto a command line tool calledplutil. This tool will parse any selected files and validate them as well formed XML. It can also convert a specified file from one XML format to another. Anyway, the point here is, it occurs to me that corrupted preference files are likely to fail this validity test.

As such, I created a shell script that parses the two most common places where preference plist files are found, and returns the errors if any are found. Armed with this information, one can decide to trash the files or inspect them. I will be placing this shell script in/usr/local/bin on my client systems, so I can ssh into them and run the script when problems are being reported. Later, I may automate a nightly job that notifies either me or the user.
#!/bin/sh
# plist_chk.sh

find /Library/Preferences -name "*.plist" -print0 | \
xargs -0 /usr/bin/plutil -lint -s
find /Users -name "*.plist" -print0 | \
xargs -0 /usr/bin/plutil -lint -s
=================================================

Open Terminal - type sudo then paste this;

find /Library/Preferences -name "*.plist" -print0 | \
xargs -0 /usr/bin/plutil -lint -s
find /Users -name "*.plist" -print0 | \
xargs -0 /usr/bin/plutil -lint -s

and give it your password.