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When I was running OS 10.4 I had all my folders beautifully organized with position and which ones should be opened in View mode and which one in Icon, etc. When I transitioned to 10.6 I found that OS ignored all that information and imposes an awful consequence of changing the view for some folder and that view moving up to all parent folders which don't have their views locked.

The only way I can think of to get this functionality back is to either write a program that given a root directory will enumerate it setting the views based upon a static template I have. The other way I thought I could accomplish this is by Folder Actions. Aside from the fact that I don't know AppleScript it seems folder actions cannot be inherited. Since I have 1000s of folders involved here, all being inherited from a single root, I could not possibly manually add that action to each of those folders.

What I would like to have is a folder action that whenever I open the folder from Finder, then if it contains any JPG, GIF, etc. type image files that it will automatically open that folder with a view of Icon with a reasonable size to support the number of images.

If the folder contains only folders, then to open that folder in the list view.

Does anyone have anything that could do this for me?

Thank You,

-- Mark

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My memory is a bit foggy, could you elaborate with screenshots on the behavior you want to have? I use 10.6 and have several folders that open the same way every time. I just need to open them in a new window (by pressing Cmd when double-clicking the folder), since Finder does not resize existing windows when navigating to a folder, and, of course, specifying they always open in icon/list view in vie preferences (Cmd-J). Otherwise, they open in the most recently specified view setting of Finder. – Daniel Beck Dec 22 '10 at 4:40
Here is an example. I have a folder names "A" and it has immediate subfolders "B" and "C". In OS 10.4 I had the view options for folder "A" to be list and its subfolders "B" and "C" to be icon. When I switched to 10.6, it seems to have lost all that information. When I open "A" it opens in whatever view its patent had. Then when I open "B" or "C" it is in the view of "A". – Mark James Dec 22 '10 at 7:57
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