How do I permanently resize Finder window in Sonoma 14.0?

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How do I permanently resize Finder window in Sonoma 14.0?

How does one, on Sonoma 14.0, permanently change the Finder window size, so all Finder window sizes are the same size?

I love Apple products, I love MacBook's especially.

However, I feel like every year, the way you permanently change finder windows changes and it always requires random calculus level critical thinking to figure out. I honestly don't get it. Apple needs to make this simpler and needs to stop changing how it's done.

Before you just changed it, relaunched. Other times you hold the option button and did it, other times the control button.

Right now, on Sonoma 14.0, I can't figure it out. I've tried almost everything. Can anyone chime in?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.5

Posted on Nov 1, 2023 11:13 AM

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Answer 1

May 30, 2024 10:26 AM in response to DardyE

It seems new Finder windows open with the dimensions of the LAST RESIZED Finder window, and tiled down and right of the CURRENT Finder window.

So if you have a Finder window, and want a new window to open with the same dimensions, first resize the current window just a little.

To me this functioning is just right. I use Finder windows with all kinds of dimensions, so for my use a default would make no sense.

Learn to resize windows efficiently. To make resizing (and moving) windows MUCH less painful, install an app to resize (or move) windows with the pointer anywhere in the window, keeping a modifier key pressed. Resizing the OSX way is an unnecessary irritation.

I use Better Touch Tool, which also gives very good and customizable snapping to top, bottom, left, right, anywhere you want. A bit costly but the best I have found.

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Answer 2

May 30, 2024 11:59 AM in response to jjohannes

Sometimes the new Finder window does not have the dimensions of the last resized window, I have no idea why. If so, resizing that new window mostly makes the dimensions "stick" and further new windows will open with those dimensions, at least in my testing...

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Answer 3

May 30, 2024 12:58 PM in response to jjohannes

Update. It works like this (Sonoma 14.2):

A new Finder window will open at the same position and with the same dimensions as the last Finder window showing that folder. As simple as that. And Finder remembers through restarts.

Other open windows showing the same folder count, also if they are in a different Desktop.

So if I close my ~/Dropbox Finder window in one Desktop, while a different ~/Dropbox Finder window is open in a different Desktop, and reopen my ~/Dropbox Finder window, it will open with the position and dimensions of that other Finder window in that different Desktop, because then that Finder window in that other Desktop is the last Finder window showing that folder.

So not having a multitude of Finder windows open, especially in other Desktops, should give fewer surprises.

Hope that helps.

Sorry about the number of posts; did not find a way to edit after posting.

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How do I permanently resize Finder window in Sonoma 14.0?

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