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New to Leopard. How overrule its desktop tyranny?
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Finally got my long-in-tooth Powerbook G4 upgraded to Leopard (all up to date at 10.5.8) after years with Tiger. Love the enhancements (sorry G4 won't work with 10.6).
One weirdness that I never saw with Tiger (and don't with my 10.6 iMac): Whenever I log out/in (or restart), all my desktop icons get alphabetized and "cleaned up" over to the right edge. I can't find any pref or view option that impacts this "auto-clean-up" of finder.
May seem small to you, but I'm accustomed to customizing locations of icon locations according to my projects. Anybody know a secret handshake to bend Finder's 10.5 tyranny? Gracias!
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Finder > View > Show View Options > Arrange By: - set it to none/snap to grid?
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Thanks for suggestion, but that was first thing I checked.
Just to double-check, I changed it to "snap-to-grid" and logged out/in.
[problem still exists]
Then I changed back to "none" and logged out/in.
Problem still exists. How could such a new install be so boinked?
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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I just remembered I'm running Snow Leopard. I turned off my 'arrange by name' setting and the desktop smoothly un-arranged itself.
Did you do a clean install or an upgrade?
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Upgrade.
I'm unsure what you mean by "unarranged itself"? Did icons on grid immediately move into different positions at the moment of changing menu from ? or change after restart?
What I notice is that when I have "Arrange by" set to "Name" or "Date"... that I cannot even *temporarily* drag an icon anywhere and have it stay there: right before my eyes it slides back into its place (in date or alphabetical order).
I'm starting to think that I may have to trash some preference file. Got any idea which? [ I know I'm "not in System 9 any more" - but I have had another experience not long ago (Safari or something) where that was actually the answer.]
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Yes my icons immediately moved.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
You could always test a brand new user account before deleting/moving that plist.
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Thanks for naming it for me.
Unfortunately, the quirk is still there. Guess I'll just be living with it.
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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Maybe try deleting ~/Desktop/.DS_Store?
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Awesome, Charles. Thanks for pegging it.
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TOMBSTONE: "He's trashed his last preferences"
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