9/10/2023 0 Comments Mac relaunch finderWindow Position – first new window after start-up opens wherever and at whatever size the first person to connect to that server that day has placed the window on their Mac. Server-derived Finder Windows on my Work Mac (Finder > Go > Connect to Server) Window Position and Size – first new window after I start up opens in centre of screen at “default” size any new window thereafter opens wherever the previous window had been moved to and at what size it had resized to. This does connect to various servers servers stay running overnight, Mac is fully shut down every evening Window Preferences – retained through multiple OS upgrades Window Position and Size – first new window after start-up opens in centre of screen at “default” size any new window thereafter opens wherever the previous window had been moved to and at what size it had resized to.įinder Preferences – retained through multiple OS upgrades These don’t connect to any servers and are fully shut down every evening. Window Preferences = any setting found under Finder > View Window Position and Size = where on the screen and what size a new Finder window opensįinder Preferences = anything under Finder > Preferences So my question to all of you out there: do you always see Finder preserve your preferences for default window? Do your choices get retained across Finder relaunches and Mac reboots? I’m starting to wonder if what I consider a bug is actually desired behavior, so I’m curious to hear what behavior other users see. Only Finder BTW, no other app seems to be showing this behavior. But now I see that on a brand new vanilla Big Sur system, the same issue pops up and Finder is not preserving user settings. In the past I always had this suspicion that I might have some defaults setting set somewhere that was the root cause of my Finder not preserving its defaults while others who didn’t have that (unknown) defaults setting seemed to report it working just fine. That said, she set it up from scratch with a vanilla Big Sur and to my great surprise, her Finder did not preserve her default window settings across relaunches/reboots. She spec’ed the little machine to the max and it’s an absolute joy to see it destroy my 2020 $3k Intel MBP. I’ve been using that trick ever since and had kind of forgotten about the issue.Īnyway, my wife just two days ago got her brand new M1 MacBook Air to replace her trusty old 2010 MBP. It seemed though at least some others also encountered the issue ( thread link) and eventually the workaround became to write a little AppleScript app ( thread link) that would set the right window properties and you’d just run it whenever Finder restarted or you launched your Mac so that you got the default window back to how you want it. On the old TidBITS comments system we had an entire thread about things to try and make it work. From the Unix console: We will go in the same direction as the previous step, that is, Applications> Utilities, but in this case we will execute the Terminal application in which we will enter the following command.Īfter this, the system itself will automatically restart the process and restart the Finder by itself.For many versions of macOS and OS X I have suffered from an issue where Finder would forget my default window preferences (size, position, column widths, etc.).This does not restart automatically, but in the next window we will click on exit, if that is not possible then we will mark «Force Quit» and then click on the dock icon to relaunch it. From Activity Monitor: We will move to the following path Applications> Utilities> Activity Monitor, within it in the processes tab we will look for the Finder and then we will click on the button with the cross in the upper left part of the window to stop the process.From the icon in the Dock: With the Option key pressed (ALT) we will secondary click to show the auxiliary menu and in the last option we will see ✿orce Restart», when we press on it the system will close and open the Finder again.From the Apple Menu: We will simply hold down the SHIFT key while we click on the icon (top left) to force the Finder to exit:.Depending on the change, it is also likely that some method to restart it will not work and we will have to resort to another to achieve it.įor this reason we will see how to do them from the Apple menu, the application icon, Activity Monitor and the Unix console for when everything else fails. ![]() ![]() It may be that on more than one occasion you need to restart the Finder, either because the associated process has crashed or because of any other type of change that we have made in the system configuration that requires a Finder restart.
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