Hi Glenn, I’m not sure that I understand your problem correctly, so please tell if I’m completely on the ‘wrong track’ ;-)
Firstly, if you are like me and don’t find “All My Files” that useful, you can do what I have done and 'hide it away’. The first thing is remove it from the Sidebar. Simply Right-Click / Control-Click on it and choose 'Remove from Sidebar’. If you ever want it back, simply go to the Sidebar tab in the Finder Preferences and re-select it. At first glance that’s all you need to do, but you’ll soon notice that every new Finder window now opens with "All My Files” displayed by default. To change this back to the Snow Leopard behaviour of showing your home folder, simply go to the Finder Preferences (located in the Finder menu) and change the 'New Finder windows show': drop-down menu. “All My Files” provides an easy way to see all of your most recently used documents, regardless of where they are actually saved. They are organised ‘Arrange By’ Kind (e.g. images, PDFs, music) and each section has a fancy “coverflow” way of scrolling. You can get this type of display for any folder you want — simply use icon view, and then choose 'Arrange by' Kind For those that are curious, All My Files is just a simple saved search, a feature that was actually introduced with Snow Leopard. Lion's Finder gives you four ways to view your files: icon view, list view, column view and Cover Flow view. But it also gives you some new ways to arrange files within those views: In addition to 'Arrange By’, Lion adds 'Sort By' and 'Clean Up By'. Unfortunately, those arrangements aren't so straightforward. The three sorting tools do have three distinct functions: 'Arrange By’ lets you organize files into groups. The new 'Sort By' option does much of what 'Arrange By' did in the past. And 'Clean Up By' is a kind of impermanent 'Sort By’. I have all my Finder Windows in Column View, but I find having my Downloads ‘Arrange By’ - ‘Date Added’ very useful. But the three options aren’t always available in all Finder views. Sometimes you can combine them; sometimes you can’t. After the above ‘Intro’ I decided to search my Lion Bookmarks as I’m sure Macworld would also have this article online, and yes they do and this is the link: <http://www.macworld.com/article/1162008/arrange_sort_files_lion_finder.html> If you don’t find your answer to your Finder View problem Glenn, please post back. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.3 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 11/04/2012, at 9:56 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote: > Hi Wamug, > > Using 10.7.3, I can access the (new to Lion) All My Files facility. Nice > option to for Apple to offer, however I personally don't find it that > useful. > > For some reason, whenever I view my Desktop and also my Downloads directory > using Finder, the folder view always changes to use the 'All My Files' > style of view. Using Finder to view any other directory uses the normal > Finder view. The behaviour seems to be linked to the directory - so for > example if I open a Finder window and view Documents, I get the normal > Finder view, but then if I navigate to the Desktop, the view changes to the > 'All My Files' style. > > The 'All My Files' view isn't the default view for all new folders. But it > has stuck to these two directories. > > I've been through Finder Preferences and View Options but can't find any > setting that controls this behaviour. > > How can I stop the Desktop and Downloads folder from using the 'All My > Files' view? > > Glenn Nicholas -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
