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Green Leaf · Feb 17, 2005, 03:32 PM

Everytime i create a new folder or copy a picture onto the desktop, it stacks itself on top of another folder or item already on the desktop. I was able to prevent this by going into View and selecting 'arrange by date, creation....'

but i don't want to sort the items on my desktop. Rather, i prefer they not overlap when i drag them there.

How can i get my desired result?
I have another computer which doesn't stack items on the desktop and nothing is selected in View Options. So why is one computer doing this?

MacGorilla · Feb 17, 2005, 03:40 PM

Freak of Nature�

Try setting 'snap to grid' and see if that helps.

Green Leaf · Feb 17, 2005, 03:50 PM

yes, snap to grid is an easy fix...but i don't want to do that.

rather, i would like my icons to appear on the desktop where ever i place them, but without automatically overlapping each other when added to the desktop area.

Green Leaf · Feb 18, 2005, 10:27 AM

i'm surprised that nobody in this forum knows why this is happening to me?

MacGorilla · Feb 18, 2005, 11:32 AM

Originally posted by Green Leaf:
i'm surprised that nobody in this forum knows why this is happening to me?

I've seen your problem before but only when I've had a lot of downloads on my desktop and ran out of space. Never in normal use. That's probably why. Its a rare error.

Chuckit · Feb 18, 2005, 11:44 AM

I've seen it before. It seemed that somehow an item was placed in just such a way that it confused the Finder and more items just kept getting piled in that place. I fixed it by manually moving everything on my desktop a little bit and then cleaning it all back up. Then things started working again. (Why? I dunno. It's a strange bug, I'll admit.)

poocat · Feb 19, 2005, 12:21 AM

I've totally had this bug, and i can usually make it happen by drag & dropping more than five things individually (ie one at a time) onto the desktop from another window. It doesn't happen all the time though, and usually messes up (for me) in the lower right corner. It's really weird, hard to reproduce, and definitely a bug.

You're not alone, just none of us know how to fix it (nor how to really reproduce it) so that's why the lack of responses.

Green Leaf · Feb 19, 2005, 06:08 AM

I only have 5 folders on the desktop. It's not a 'clutter issue'.

Even if i drag one item to the desktop, it overlaps.

HELP!

poocat · Feb 19, 2005, 10:07 PM

Do you have five folders filling the right most edge of the screen (folder wise)? Because most of my troubles come from OS X not recognizing that it should start a new row, and continuing to pile them on the bottom right corner... Though i have had this problem occur in other locations.

Not recently though. Hmmm.

Trying to help.

maloart · Jan 17, 2006, 06:30 PM

This has just started happening to me on my G5... It happened on my G4 but I hardly use it anymore and didn't worry about it. Played around a bit and I believe it's probably a bug. Tp fix it without going through the "Clean up and arrange" options, is I just changed the size of the icons. I was running them at 36x36, changing it to 32x32 fixed the problem. Hope this helps...