Leopard provides a facility for making a folder's view stick to a folder. This is accomplished by choosing View » Show View Options, and clicking the 'Always open in ...' checkbox to retain the currently-selected view for that folder. Unfortunately, setting up folders to do this is cumbersome, because you have to do this for each individual folder. This tip describes a way to get it done very easily for large numbers of folders. (If you'd like to know more about why I like to do this, read the my explanation at the end of this hint.) It's easy to create a convenient set of Automater workflows that will set the view of one or more folders simultaneously to a given view in such a way as to have that view stick to the selected folders. I created a workflow for each of the four Finder views, named appropriately as Iconview, Listview, Columnview, and Flowview. These are installed in...

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