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sandrokan

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Jun 13, 2012
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Hi
I would like every new Finder window to be always in list mode, alphabetically, no matter if I accidentally switch to "icon" or "Cover Flow" in a previous instance.

I believed this preference was stored into ".DS_Store" files, but it seems to me it is not.
(I use 10.12.5)

I just deleted every DS_Store file:
sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;


but still my "Finder" remembers which folder I last looked at with "list" mode or with "icon" mode.

Also, if I look to the modification time of a DS_Store file, then it is not changed even if I switch to "icon" from "list".

And the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist file is not modified as well.

So I wonder: where is the preference about "list" vs "icon" stored? When I google for it, first results say it is in DS_Store, but it is not imho.

Thanks in advance
Alex
 
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