Possible to keep the sidebar closed in 10.5?

[Dave H]

Is there some way to keep the sidebar from being open by default when opening folders?

Thank you.

 

[Gregg2]

Every folder you open, click the oval in the upper right corner, then close the folder. Next time, it should open without the Sidebar. I don't think clicking on "Save as Defaults" in Show View Options will cause all windows to lose the Sidebar. But you can try that.

 

[Dave H]

Thank you.
I have been doing that, and doing that... It doesn't seem to work over time.

 

[Gregg2]

Just tried it on one window. It works for me.

Don't know if this is a Finder issue or a System User Interface issue, or something else. To find out if it's one of the above, use a trial and error method: one plist file at a time. Not very sophisticated, but Mr. Sophisticated hasn't posted.

/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

Move one to the Desktop.
Restart.
No good?
Try the other one.

What happened?

 

[Dave H]

I trashed the plist files.
The sidebar stays closed on most folders.
The "Utilities" and "Downloads" folders still open with the sidebar.
If I close the folders and reopen them (without manually closing the sidebar), the sidebar is closed.

 

[Gregg2]

Glad that helped!