Nautilus in Gnome 3.8 doesn't remember any view settings

I realize that When using Nautilus (Fedora 19 - Gnome 3.8) an icon named "Files" appears in the top left of the screen (not in the window of Nautilus itself). Right click in the icon and choose "Preferences". After changing the settings we should close and restart Nautilus to see the results.

This behaviour was changed from remembering the view settings on a folder-by-folder basis to remembering the view settings on a window-by-window basis. See the bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1152226

and the upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682017

I'm not sure that this was a good user design change. I think some users would rather when going to some folders to see a set of icons and for other folders to see a detailed list, depending on the contents of the folders. It doesn't seem to make sense to have the view setting stick based on the window.

Turns out the fix was to clear my Nautilus settings (I guess some settings from when I had Unity installed must have been messing with the new version of Nautiulus):

$ rm -rf ~/.config/nautilus; rm -rf ~/.config/nautilus-extensions; dconf reset -f /org/gnome/nautilus/

Source: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1266840#p1266840