On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:18 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:

> 
> On Feb 24, 2010, at 7:02 PM, Macs R We wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Milton Sagen wrote:
>> 
>>> OMG, they hired another Windows 7 engineer.
>>> 
>>> On Feb 24, 2010, at 07:59 AM, William Ehrich wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Since one of the recent system updates all new windows open near the upper 
>>>> left corner instead of where they closed or (apparently) where programs 
>>>> put them. It's a damn nuisance. Is there a workaround?
>> 
>> I believe the "memory" of where a folder's window last fell and what listing 
>> mode it was opened in is in a dot-something file in that folder.  If you did 
>> something to destroy your dot-something files (e.g., like moving a folder 
>> structure onto and back off a Windows-formatted volume) those settings will 
>> be forgotten and default to the upper left corner.
> 
> 
> I am not sure but I don't think so.  I think it is stored in the defaults 
> system somewhere (based on my trying to do some defaults stuff myself and 
> reading up on it in my own SW).


If you do a

% defaults read

and look things through you find all sorts of window, view, etc things in there 
that look like window position and other such saved info


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