[X4U] My PowerBook Has A Mind Of Its Own!

[Robert (Bob) P Andris]

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."
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>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