In article <tomstiller-0BFD0B.12205927042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Tom Stiller <tomstiller@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <0001HW.C43A02F30001D6DEB01AD9AF@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:57:12 -0500, nospam wrote (in article
> > <270420081057128573%nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> >
> > > In article <0001HW.C439FD8900009200B01AD9AF@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > > TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Is there a way to set the default view for all folders visible from
a
> > >> user account? That is, I would like to have every folder open in
default
> > >> view so that if I make a change to default view it will affect
every
> > >> single folder.
> > >
> > > what type of change?
> >
> > As an example, I might want to change icon size and have the change
apply
> > to
> > every folder that might be opened.
> >
> > >> I am using OS X 10.5.2 on a MacBook Pro
> > >
> > > in leopard, whatever view you pick (icon, list, column, coverflow)
is the
> > > one that's used for all folders unless you specifically set a folder
to
> > > retain a particular view. this is different than in tiger and
earlier
> > > where the view mode was per folder.
> >
> > I think that somewhere along the line variant views other than
"default"
> > were
> > applied to some folders. What I would like to do is to override such
> > settings
> > with a single action that would apply to each and every folder, or at
least
> > all folders subservient to the currently open folder.
>
> I believe that information is retained in the .DS_Store file within the
> folder.
It is. But there's no do***ented means to change it en mass like the OP
is asking, and the .DS_Store file holds information in it that people
might not like to lose if they tried deleting it as a way to reset to
the default view.
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