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		inapis on Oct 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Hate My MacBook You can. Cmd+J will let you choose defaults system wide. This will be overruled if there are local settings manually selected for a specific folder. If you want to force system wide view settings in finder, delete all DS_Store files and then do the thing with cmd+j

joshspankit on Oct 4, 2020 | [–]

Officially that’s true, but I’ve been running OSX since at least .8, and in practice it just does not honour the “I want all finder windows like this” ideal.

dmitriid on Oct 4, 2020 | [–]

Cmd+J never worked for me system wide. Tough it looks like it may be working in the latest Catalina versions.

wasdfff on Oct 4, 2020 | [–]

Can confirm still broken in catalina.

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