Paul, I had high hopes for your recommendation. Unfortunately, it had no effect. Does anyone else have an idea what the problem is and what to do about it? TIA, Bob >Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:01:39 +0100 >From: Paul Moortgat <paul.moortgat at pandora.be> >Subject: Re: [X4U] My PowerBook Has A Mind Of Its Own! >To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user." > <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> >Message-ID: <5C2A19C6-2F4C-11D9-8186-000393DC7906 at pandora.be> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > >You might delete the file com.apple.finder.plist, logout and restart. > >Paul Moortgat > >On 5-nov-04, at 16:43, Robert (Bob) P Andris wrote: > >> My 17" 1.3GHz PowerBook, running 10.3.5 has suddenly developed a mind >> of its own with respect to its two highest level windows. I set all >> of my classic icon style windows to "Icons", "32x32" Icon size, "10 pt >> Text size", "Bottom" label position, "Snap to grid", and "White" >> Background. By "classic icon style" I mean the Finder windows WITHOUT >> the "Toolbar". >> >> I do a normal shutdown and the later bootup. When I open the main/or >> highest level hard disk window - it comes up in the "Toolbar" style. >> So does the next level "Applications" window. All others, below that >> are as I previously left them. >> >> Next I will reset those two windows to the non-Toolbar style. Use the >> machine for quite a while and the windows always remain as I had just >> set them. Shut'er down - repeat the bootup and those two are back in >> the Toolbar style! >> >> Has anyone seen this? More importantly, does anyone know what to do >> to get it back to normal? >> >> Many Thanks, > > Bob