Over the past year or so, I have really been working hard to re-establish my workflows as I have migrated away from Windows to OSX. One thing that is driving me crazy is that there is no easy way to use finder to view files and folders consistently grouped together. You can sort by type and get them to appear that way at certain times, but finder seems to forget the settings on restart. As well, when you switch between the different views of looking at the files, it forgets your settings.
I would like to create a utility that groups the folder display globally as a default setting. I found a tutorial on how this can be done by editing the finder.app file... but I am not sure if that would hold up on system updates. I figure that you might have to go back and update that edit all the time.
Also thought this would be a good exercise for me to delve into app development. If anyone has any ideas how I could go about creating this app, please let me know. I am a solid web designer/programmer but have not yet coded anything for OSX.
edit- found this page and I am downloading xcode which seems to be the first step in the process...
I would like to create a utility that groups the folder display globally as a default setting. I found a tutorial on how this can be done by editing the finder.app file... but I am not sure if that would hold up on system updates. I figure that you might have to go back and update that edit all the time.
Also thought this would be a good exercise for me to delve into app development. If anyone has any ideas how I could go about creating this app, please let me know. I am a solid web designer/programmer but have not yet coded anything for OSX.
edit- found this page and I am downloading xcode which seems to be the first step in the process...
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