Documents Folder

Tom84 · 23 Aug 2011 at 15:30

For some reason after every reboot my documents folder goes into a right mess of folders all over the place, I set it to arrange by name and all's well until the next reboot :confused:

Couldn't find anything on google as to why this may be but does anyone know of a way or organising folders in a way that it keeps the settings rather than defaulting to being in a mess following every reboot?

uniQ · 23 Aug 2011 at 17:12

Try organising then open terminal and type:

killall Finder

Reopen finder and see if its organised then reboot.

Tom84 · 24 Aug 2011 at 10:46

Oddly enough after doing that the documents folder opens on it's own all messed up again :confused:

Didn't bother doing the reboot

uniQ · 24 Aug 2011 at 15:20

Something is stopping it from remembering its last saved state. Try this.

Open terminal and type: (This will show hidden files in finder)
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

then type:
killall Finder

Open finder now delete the .DS_Store file in the documents folder. Re organise, change directory.

Terminal:
killall Finder

You can then re enable hidden files if you prefer by typing:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE & killall Finder

Tom84 · 25 Aug 2011 at 20:25

Just tried this and it looks to have worked a treat thanks a lot mate