Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid? Or do they have to be set indivually?
On 21 Apr 2025 at 3:11:28 pm BST, "John Hill" <[email protected]> wrote:
Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid?
Or do they have to be set indivually?
If you open View Options (cmd-J) and select snap to grid, does the 'use as defaults' button at the bottom of the options pane not do what you want?
On 21 Apr 2025 at 15:49:05 BST, "TimH" <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 21 Apr 2025 at 3:11:28 pm BST, "John Hill" <[email protected]> wrote:
Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid?
Or do they have to be set indivually?
If you open View Options (cmd-J) and select snap to grid, does the 'use as >> defaults' button at the bottom of the options pane not do what you want?
It might - I have never been there! But I have set it, so we'll see.
Thank you.
Old John.
On 21/04/2025 18:06, John Hill wrote:
On 21 Apr 2025 at 15:49:05 BST, "TimH" <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 21 Apr 2025 at 3:11:28 pm BST, "John Hill" <[email protected]> wrote:
Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid?
Or do they have to be set indivually?
If you open View Options (cmd-J) and select snap to grid, does the 'use as >>> defaults' button at the bottom of the options pane not do what you want?
It might - I have never been there! But I have set it, so we'll see.
Thank you.
Old John.
When you said “User folder” did you mean the folder that contains all your personal 'stuff': Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, and so on?
But I have never been ablt to increase the overall screen contrast, to make the blacks blacker. Increase Contrast in Accessibility does NOT do what I want. Maybe it isn't possible, but it is merely my deteriorating vision. 👓
But I have never been ablt to increase the overall screen contrast, to make the blacks blacker. Increase Contrast in Accessibility does NOT do what I want. Maybe it isn't possible, but it is merely my deteriorating vision. 👓
John Hill wrote:
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But I have never been ablt to increase the overall screen contrast, to make >> the blacks blacker. Increase Contrast in Accessibility does NOT do what I
want. Maybe it isn't possible, but it is merely my deteriorating vision. 👓
Surely that's logically impossible?
A black pixel is simply one that is not illuminated
On 22. Apr 2025 at 09:07:30 CEST, "John Hill" <[email protected]> wrote:
But I have never been ablt to increase the overall screen contrast, to make >> the blacks blacker. Increase Contrast in Accessibility does NOT do what I
want. Maybe it isn't possible, but it is merely my deteriorating vision. 👓
You can try to adjust the contrast directly on your monitor.
Or maybe go to Settings->Display->Profile and calibrate your display.
Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid? Or do they have to be set indivually?
On 2025-04-21, John Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid?
Or do they have to be set indivually?
I did a bit of research and created the AppleScript below. It seemed to work when
I tried it on some folders inside ~/Documents.
set theFolder to choose folder
tell application "Finder"
set arrangement of icon view options of container window of theFolder to snap to grid
set arrangement of icon view options of (container window of every folder of entire contents of theFolder) to snap to grid
end tell
Carefully choose the starting folder and of course use at your peril and backup first.
Apologies for any long lines above.
An article recently appeared in MacWorld bemoaning the utter mess that Apple has made of System Settings, something with which I think we would all agree. If you are interested, the link is
https://tinyurl.com/2fbm4z55
On 21 Apr 2025 at 20:54:11 BST, "David" <[email protected]> wrote:
On 21/04/2025 18:06, John Hill wrote:
On 21 Apr 2025 at 15:49:05 BST, "TimH" <[email protected]d> wrote:
On 21 Apr 2025 at 3:11:28 pm BST, "John Hill" <[email protected]> wrote:It might - I have never been there! But I have set it, so we'll see.
Simple question. But is there a simple answer?
Is it possible to set ALL the folders in my User folder to View/Snap to Grid?
Or do they have to be set indivually?
If you open View Options (cmd-J) and select snap to grid, does the 'use as >>>> defaults' button at the bottom of the options pane not do what you want? >>>
Thank you.
Old John.
When you said “User folder” did you mean the folder that contains all
your personal 'stuff': Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, and so on?
Yes - but no harm if it applies everywhere. If it does, that's even better.
I said I had never been there before, but on further thought I probably set it
long ago - perhaps even before Yosemite - and forgot it. Migration Assistant has preserved the setting over at least two iMac upgrades, but the recent tidy
up of the User/Library lost it, along with a lot of other long forgotten settings - preferred reading size, for instance, whch I have but back to 13 point.
Bit by bit, I am putting these thing back to how I like them - if only I can remember how to do it.
But I have never been ablt to increase the overall screen contrast, to make the blacks blacker. Increase Contrast in Accessibility does NOT do what I want. Maybe it isn't possible, but it is merely my deteriorating vision. 👓
Old John.
John Hill <[email protected]> writes:
An article recently appeared in MacWorld bemoaning the utter mess that Apple >> has made of System Settings, something with which I think we would all agree.
If you are interested, the link is
https://tinyurl.com/2fbm4z55
I can certainly relate to having to use the search facilty nearly every
time I open System Settings.
An article recently appeared in MacWorld bemoaning the utter mess that Apple has made of System Settings, something with which I think we would all agree. If you are interested, the link is
https://tinyurl.com/2fbm4z55
Nice to see Jason Snell still writing
interesting Mac related topics.
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