Feel like a techie and write one line of code!

Okay I'm sorry about all the computer posts, but this is something I learned recently and it brought so much joy to my world that I have to share it.

If you've been a mac user for any amount of time you have probably learned two thing:

1. Your mac lets you do the same action, a hundred different way. This lets you customize your computer to behave how you think it should behave.
2. Sometimes these options can drive you crazy.

Let me posit a scenario: You open your documents folder, and it appears in the mother of all beautiful views, column view. (if you prefer any other view, this trick will work for you as well but you should know that everything you're doing is wrong.) But then, you double click a folder on your desktop only to find it opens in the evil Icon view! 

If you are a good person in right standing with God, this sort of chaos can drive you crazy. There are a few ways of fixing this problem, but here is the quickest one I have found:



A) While in Finder, click Command+Shift+U.

B) Your Utilities folder should have opened. Double click on the program AppleScript Editor. If you have never opened this program before, don't get scared. It will be okay.

C) In the top box type the following all in one line:

tell application "Finder" to set the current view of the window of every folder of home to column view

*If you are not a column view user, you can propagate your sin by replacing column view with list view, flow view, or icon view.

D) Hit Compile. This will make some words change colors and check to make sure your code is good. If there are any problems make sure you typed it correctly.

E) Then hit Run.

Now every folder under your user name will be the same view! (This does not change your applications folder, or anything in your system library. Unfortunately those require a bit more effort and I don't want to get into right now)