10.6: Set the View type for a Disk Image

Sep 24, '10 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: crarko

Snow Leopard only hintIn Snow Leopard newly created Disk Images, both unencrypted and encrypted, will default to the use of Icon View for display. Changing the View type to List, Cover Flow, or Column View and then closing the window and reopening the window causes the view to revert to Icon View. Ejecting and remounting the image will also lose any changes and revert to Icon View.

Deleting the .DS_Store file on the mounted image does not help, and there is nothing in com.apple.finder.plist that seems to affect this. This is quite vexing, and appears to be present in all revisions of Snow Leopard, at least through 10.6.4.

Fortunately, there is a workaround.

Here is the process:

This is a Finder bug. The expected behavior is that the 'Always open in * view' checkbox should adjust to the view that you've selected. 10.5 handled this correctly.

[crarko adds: This hint was inspired by this thread in the MacOSXHints forums. I keep customer data in encrypted Disk Images all the time, and as I prefer Column View this was driving me crazy after upgrading to Snow Leopard.]

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