On Jul 29, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Hello All,
Just a few days ago, I noticed that my main hard drive window, and my OS X apps window don't keep my settings. I'm reffering to the background image within those two windows and the size of the icons, etc. Oddly, it's only these two windows. Any ideas? Thanks all,
Probably a messed up .DS_Store file in those directories.
fire up terminal and do: (in all of these examples, don't type the single quotes)
'cd /'
This will change you to the root of your main drive, what you're looking at when you open that finder window.
'sudo rm .DS_Store'
This tells the system to do something as the superuser (root, the most powerful user on a Unix system) and the thing you're teling it to do is remove ('rm') the file called .DS_Store
This is the hidden file where OSX stores these settings for each folder.
You will be asked for your password (You must be an admin user to do this.) then it will ask if you are sure you want to do it.
Now do
'cd /Applications'
and
'sudo rm .DS_Store'
The settings should stick now.
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