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10.6: Change icon size in Finder windows via the trackpad
Authored by: leandrobarocco on Jul 09, '10 02:11:27AM

Found it out. Well, it's not a "clean" hint but... anyway, it works! Note that it doesn't prevent accidentally icon resize, it simply let you step back to your arranged Desktop before size change.

First of all, set up your desktop the way you want, then lock the two following files to prevent accidentally changes:

- com.apple.finder.plist (it's placed in ~/Library/Preferences/) -- locks icon' sizes
- Desktop's .DS_Store (~/Desktop/.DS_Store) -- locks icon's position on the Desktop

While lock the first one is simple because it's visible and it can be done in the Finder, to lock the second one there are two ways: set file attributes via SetFile command in terminal ("/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a L ~/Desktop/.DS_Store", without quotes; you need Developer Tools installed on your System), or enable "show invisible file" option in Finder through Onyx, TinkerTool or Cocktail; then search for Desktop's .DS_Store and lock it.

From now on, all desktop changes will not be saved; to revert to saved Desktop arrangement simply relaunch Finder (it also mean that if you add new files/folder to the Desktop after mod, they will be shown in their default position in descending order from right to left). In case you would like to modify your Desktop, you'll need to unlock those file, do the changes and relock them again.



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