On Saturday, July 31, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Hello All,
For some reason, my settings for only two windows do not save. Specifically, my main hard drive window and the applications (for OS X) window. Only these two windows always go to a "default" setting after reboot/cold boot.
There is an invisible file called '.DS_Store' in every directory on your Mac that's ever been opened in Finder, which stores this information.
Quick Unix lesson:
These files could also have become corrupted. The fix is deleting them, as the OS will just recreate them again. If fixing permissions doesn't work, close the offending windows, then open a Terminal window. (in all the instructions following, type the commands without the "'"'s and hit return after)
type 'cd /' type 'sudo rm .DS_Store'
If this is the first time you have run the sudo command, you will get a screen asking you to be careful and be polite with other's files, then you'll be asked for your admin password.
Then you'll be asked if you really want to delete the file .DS_Store Enter 'y'
type 'cd /Applications' type type 'sudo rm .DS_Store' again type 'y' again.
You're not asked for your admin password again because the OS lets you continue to use sudo in a single terminal session until you don't use it for 15 minutes, I think.
You can use the 'rm -f' version of the rm (the unix file deleting command) which forces the removal, not asking you for confirmation. When you rm a file in Unix it's gone, dead, pushing up daisies, nailed to the perch, pinin' for the fjords, pray you have a recent backup dead.
When you use sudo, you're acting as 'root' the most powerful user on a Unix system. Root can do 'rm -rf /' (the single most dangerous command in the Unix Universe) and a system will obediently eat itself, so it pays to be careful and have the 'are you sure' prompt.
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