10.4: Change all Finder folders to identical views

May 10, '05 09:31:00AM

Contributed by: vondrix

Tiger only hintI prefer to use the same view to see a folder. The problem is that you can only set it on a folder-by-folder basis in the Finder. It's really painfull to go in to each and one of them to change it.

In Tiger, you can use Automator to do this for you. Drag your home folder to an empty Automator workflow. Search in Automator for "folder view" and drag the "Set folder views" action to your workflow. Set up the desired view, and click "Apply changes to sub-folders". Click the run button, and you're done -- though it might take a while to run.

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