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From: hm292hu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Fred Hucht)
Subject: Re: Views CDEV in System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun02.204843.18838@unidui.uni-duisburg.de>
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Duisburg
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Date: Sun, 02 Jun 91 20:48:43 GMT
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In <10982@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> jonh@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jon Howell) writes:

>I like to select auto-gridding and medium-size icons for listed views from
>the Control Panel.  However, every time my machine restarts, that information
>gets sent via Appletalk, thru a Ethernet gateway, onto the Internet, and into
>lunar orbit.  (ie, it resets to the defaults.)  How come my prefs aren't
>sticking?

>Thanks,
>	--Jon

The 7.0 Finder saves the views settings in the file

System Folder:Preferences:Finder Preferences.

If I trash the Preferences folder and put a document with name Preferences
into the system folder, the Finder can't access the preferences file and 
won't save the settings. So look if the preferences folder exists and if the
finder preferences file is in and not locked. If it's locked, the finder 
won't save the settings, too.

Hope this helps,

Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany