I believe the desktop you're seeing is the full desktop. The desktop you want is the finder folder view of it.
> On Aug 19, 2014, at 4:53, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I notice that when I boot my Mac, the desktop that I am taken to seems to be > a sort of scaled down version of the desktop. That is to say, it only > contains the aliases I have set up, I don't see the sidebar or toolbar. Why > these two versions of the desktop? And if I wanted to, is there any way to > default to the full desktop? > thanks, > Donna > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
