View option is not staying put

Cheryl

Cheryl

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A friend is having trouble and I am stumped.

"I am using system 10.2.3 and am well satisfied except that
some of my most frequently opened windows open with an icon view. I go to the view menu item and change to a list view. This is fine until I restart my imac, then the same large icon view appears."

He has repaired permissions. Trashed the finder preference file from his home>library>preferences. He has also opened the window, changed it to list, went to View Options under View and changed the icon to small (32 x32). Whenever the computer is started up (from a shut down the night before) the window is back to large icon view.

Any suggestions to make his preference stick?
 
This may sound strange, but it works with most of my finder window problems...

Open up a fresh window. Without doing anything change it to list. Without doing anything else, close the window. Restart. See if that helps.

Also be sure he's setting for global windows and not just the window that's open.

Other than that I'm stumped as well. :(
 
Trash the .DS_Store file within the culprit folders and try again. There are several ways to do this. A couple are:
  • Use Tinkertool or something similar to make all files visible. Then drag the .DS_Store file to the trash.
  • Launch Terminal, and type rm -f /path/to/folder/.DS_Store followed by an administrative password.
This only works on a case-by-case basis, so if this is a problem for all folders you're out of luck with the .DS_Store files.
 
If ever you see somebody using 10.2.3, I'd also advise them to update to 10.2.8 and install all the security updates (basically just let SU do its stuff). We don't want _them_ to say "See? Mac users don't keep their machines safe, either!"...

I second Trip's trick. Make the window look how you want it, then CLOSE it. Reopen it. If it's still okay, close it. Reboot. Should be okay.
 
Try making the window the way you want it, close the window, quit and restart the Finder.
 
Making the window to the view wanted, close the window and then open it, shows the correct option. But closing the window after selection, then restarting or quit and then start, has it back to large icons.
Since this is just the Applications window, I will have him do Arden's suggestion. I'll let you know what happens.

Thanks for your help.
 
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