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Does .DS_Store really hold folder view info??
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 401559" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>I toggled the invisible files to visible with an AppleScript, created a folder then another inside it, then fiddled with the folders' .DS_Store files that sometimes seem to take forever before they're created. (There's a freeware/donationware Invisibles app on versiontracker that does it, too.)</p><p></p><p>It appears that the DS_Store file in the encompassing folder controls the view of the nested folder. (Unless I screwed something up. But I did it twice.)</p><p></p><p>I changed the nested folder's view to List, then trashed its Store file and logged out and in. Nothing happened. So I did the same thing with the encompassing folder, and when I logged back in, it was the nested folder that had returned to the default Icon view.</p><p></p><p>But logging out was a race against time. If the Store file sometimes takes forever to be created, when I <em>didn't</em> want it to reappear, it was created as soon as I trashed the original.</p><p></p><p>If you try this, it might be easier to into the keyboard preferences and set an F key to logout so you can hit it immediately after trashing the Store file.</p><p></p><p>You probably could read the .DS_Store file by opening it with TextEdit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 401559, member: 3889"] I toggled the invisible files to visible with an AppleScript, created a folder then another inside it, then fiddled with the folders' .DS_Store files that sometimes seem to take forever before they're created. (There's a freeware/donationware Invisibles app on versiontracker that does it, too.) It appears that the DS_Store file in the encompassing folder controls the view of the nested folder. (Unless I screwed something up. But I did it twice.) I changed the nested folder's view to List, then trashed its Store file and logged out and in. Nothing happened. So I did the same thing with the encompassing folder, and when I logged back in, it was the nested folder that had returned to the default Icon view. But logging out was a race against time. If the Store file sometimes takes forever to be created, when I [I]didn't[/I] want it to reappear, it was created as soon as I trashed the original. If you try this, it might be easier to into the keyboard preferences and set an F key to logout so you can hit it immediately after trashing the Store file. You probably could read the .DS_Store file by opening it with TextEdit. [/QUOTE]
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