Everytime I have to make the column width on the left in Open and Save dialogs bigger in order to see the full name of my favorites, disks etc. But it doe not stick, the next time it is back to a too small widt. Annoying!
Column width on Open/Save dialogs not sticking
Same problem here.
The preferences for individual folders are kept in the invisible .DS_Store files in each folder.
Based on the details of your account in another thread, I'd guess that Beta 3 is failing to update them for some people.
A Bug report should be filed by someone.
You could try to make them visible with this command in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES; killall Finder
If you delete the .DS_Store in a given folder and then change the column width then Finder will create a new one, which should work even on Beta 3.
Obviously you can make "invisble" files invisible again by substituting NO in the above command.
Please note I am talking about the Open/Save dialog, not about Finder windows...
I know, but if the dialogs are different for different drives then it must be a local setting, not a global one. And the only local setting that I'm aware of is the .DS_Store
No, removed the DS_Store, restarted, opened a window in a directory I deleted the DS_Store from, resized the left bar. Closed. Opened agaib: still the too small width again...
The .DS_Store file is just where changes you make to a specific folder's appearance should be stored. Either it isn't being changed properly for y'all, or it isn't being read properly.
If it isn't being read properly then it should revert to default appearance (you could try finding and editing the .plist for that).
If it isn't being written properly then editing that .plist alone won't help - you'd additionally need one of those apps that immediately delete .DS_Store files as soon as they're created (BlueHarvest comes to mind).