[KevinPrice]

Since upgrading to 10.5 (about a month ago...I know, I don't live on the bleeding edge), I've noticed that when I start up from an external disk (firewire, eSATA or USB), the external disk icon is NO LONGER in the upper right corner of the desktop (indicating it as the startup disk). As a result, while the computer DOES start up from an external drive, my MAIN hard drive is ALWAYS in the upper right.

I've been using Macs for nearly 20 years now and have NEVER seen this...whatever was the startup disk ALWAYS showed up in the upper right corner.

(1) Anyone else seen/noticed this?
(2) Anyone have a 'fix'?

Thanks for any and all comments!

[Art Vandelay]

That's a feature of Leopard.

[KevinPrice]

Art, are you kidding?

If you're not, do you know any way to change this behavior back to ALWAYS putting the startup disk icon in the upper right on the desktop?

[Art Vandelay]

I'm not kidding. You can put anything anywhere you want on the Desktop and it will remember its position though reboots, etc. So, if there is something already in the corner, a newly connected drive or new startup disk won't be able to go there unless you manually move things around.

[KevinPrice]

Interesting...I must have been asleep during the 'announcement'.

Thanks for the insight, Art...I was getting a little worried there for a moment or two. I guess we'll just have to deal with it.

[Jasoco]

Yes. Leopard now remembers the location of discs as well as documents and folders. It's nice. If you have to you can manually move your startup boot drive into the first position. Then it'll always be there as long as it is the first drive loaded. (Which it will be if it is the boot drive)

Point of note: If two drives try to take the same spot, the last one(s) mounted will move to the next available slot. And if you say have three drives. 1, 2 and 3 in the first, second and third spot, but one day if you only mount the first and third, they will go in the slots they remember. 1 in the first, 3 in the third with the second slot empty. If you move disc 3 to slot 2, it will remember this. If you try to mount 2, it will go into the 3rd slot if 2 is already taken.

Of course this is all providing "Snap to Grid" is turned on.

I use this so that when my Time Machine disc is automatically mounted by Time Machine every hour, it will always go to the bottom right slot. It's out of the way, but still visible. If that slot is taken, it will temporarily move to the next slot open, but will move back next time it mounts and nothing is there.

I believe all this info is kept in the Desktop folder's .DS_Store file.