I know of the default setting in Nautilus to set the default view, but that sets it for all directories. What I'm looking for is to set the "list view" for specific folders, but Nautilus does not seem to remember my settings when I change it for a folder.

Current Behavior:

The current default view is set to Icon View. If I open Nautilus, go into a directory, say Documents, and change it to List view, it changes successfully. Subsequently, everything in this Nautilus session also changes to List view, so if I go back to my Home folder and any other folder, they're also in List view. Now, if I close and reopen Nautilus, everything is set back to Icon view, even the Documents folder.

What I've tried

1. I've tried deleting all the files under the directory ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata mentioned in this answer, but it didn't seem to do anything.


2. My current setup is that /home is on a separate partition, while the subfolders (Documents, Downloads, etc...) are symlinked to an NTFS partition. I thought that might be the issue, but the same thing happens if I try what I mentioned above on a folder directly under /home/.


3. This question is similar, but it doesn't help.


4. I've tried installing the Thunar file manager, but it also has the same issue.


5. I've tried installing the PCManFM file manager, but it also has the same issue.

Is this the default, normal behavior of Nautilus? Or is this a bug?

alaa@aa-lu:~$ nautilus --version

GNOME nautilus 3.6.3



alaa@aa-lu:~$ lsb_release -d

Description:    Ubuntu 13.04