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  1. JippaLippa

    Setting one "View Options" for all folders system wide.

    Hello. I have been using macOS since Snow Leopard and I love it! One thing I have always found annoying, though, is the impossibility of setting one "View Options" settings for all folders. Even after having set one view option as default, whenever I open a subfolder or an other folder...
  2. PowerPCFan

    A quick question about Stacks, the quick way to organize your desktop

    So I used to have NO folders and I just used Stacks. However, I found that it was stressful to find stuff, so I switched to ALL folders and NO stacks. But that made me miss Stacks. So then I switched to a MIX of folders and Stacks. I was happy, but there was one problem: I can’t move the folders...
  3. B

    Unable to change default Finder view options

    Hi y'all, I've been having this really frustrating issue with both of my macs (2020 m1 mac mini and 2018 macbook pro) for a few months now. I like to organize my files in icon view, using group by > tags and sort by > tags to create a hierarchical color system that works for me really well. I...
  4. S

    Windows are sorting files in reverse order

    Bizarre new issue. If I look at the contents of a folder in icon view, and I try to sort the files by date created or date modified, it puts the newest files first and the oldest files last. This is not how I remember this ever working. If I want to sort by date created I want it in order of...