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ShadyAdel

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 24, 2015
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0
Hello,

So I just got a new rMBP and so far I'm very happy with it, still a huge learning curve for me and will definitely be bugging you guys with beginners' questions on many occasions.
I was messing around with the view options today and I accidentally clicked "Use as default" on a custom configuration...Is there any way to reset the default view to what it actually was?
This is the Applications folder and I really like how it auto-arranged them so that the newest things come at the bottom.

TL;DR: How do I reset Applications folder view in the finder to its factory default even if I changed the default?

Thanks in advance!
 

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macrumors 6502a
Aug 5, 2013
719
989
Hello,

So I just got a new rMBP and so far I'm very happy with it, still a huge learning curve for me and will definitely be bugging you guys with beginners' questions on many occasions.
I was messing around with the view options today and I accidentally clicked "Use as default" on a custom configuration...Is there any way to reset the default view to what it actually was?
This is the Applications folder and I really like how it auto-arranged them so that the newest things come at the bottom.

TL;DR: How do I reset Applications folder view in the finder to its factory default even if I changed the default?

Thanks in advance!
In terminal, type:
sudo rm "/Applications/.DS_Store"
killall Finder
 

ShadyAdel

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 24, 2015
9
0
In terminal, type:
sudo rm "/Applications/.DS_Store"
killall Finder
Thanks a lot for the speedy reply!
I may be doing something wrong, but it still looks the same to me.
When I typed the first line it warned me, I entered my password.
When I typed the second line nothing seemed to happen, except another line appears with a square.
 

ShadyAdel

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 24, 2015
9
0
Nvm, I got it, this is gonna reset my View profile to the factory default, but the factory default is nothing really, which is why whenever I use "Restore to default" now nothing is going to happen. Is there a way to arrange it manually then?
 
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