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I cant make any sense of this :-/

I decided to test with building a .pkg that has a sourcefolder for items to install. And the one item in question is the .DS_Store file. So I decided to configure the sourcefolder to behave such as I want a specified /User Template folder to act. But when I did this, I opened the sourcefolder – pressed command J, configured the folder, closed, and reopened it, and it behaved like I expected. But when I copied it into my local hard drive, where it also behaved like I expected – it did NOT contain a .DS_store file. I got really uncertian about if I missed it, so to double check, I used the terminal, went in as root to this folder, and did [code]ls -la[/code] but there where no .DS_store file. Which tells me that this information is not stored here. I do maby similar info, but not the folders viewstyle.

So I’m stuck again trying to make sense of com.apple.finder.plist which has lots of references to such info, without it making that much more sense.

APPLE! Why wount you just document something as central as this!?

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That’s good advice, but like you said, it doesn’t work on Leopard.

I’ve decided to test a less sexy approach. Leopard let’s me speficy speficic folders that allways are suppose to open in a specific viewstyle. And when I thinkabout it. Most users access Finder from just a few folders anyway. So if I set this parameter on the boot volume, users homefolder, users first level subfolders, applications folder and the utilities folder – I think It may be good enough for us. This will set a default parametere for our users, that we prefer, but at the same time allow users to make their own modifications.

I think this information is stored in com.apple.com.finder.plist – So it should be account-independent if I distribute this in User Template.

Stay tuned.

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Great! Thank you very much 🙂

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Thank you, it worked right away.

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We came across one problem, which is that the Gestures videos that explain the fancy new usage of the MacBook Air and new MacBook Pro multitouch touchpads, aren’t included on the retail disk, and is not in the comboupdater. We fixed this by creating our own .pkg that places these moives in the right directory, works great now.

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