Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-02 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 02/03/05 04:43, Larry le Mac at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From: Claire Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I'll tell you what came to mind when I read your post. >> (1) If your preferences are NOT set to snap-to-grid, and >> (2) you've been gathering a collection of icons all over your desktop, an

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-02 Thread Larry le Mac
From: Claire Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll tell you what came to mind when I read your post. (1) If your preferences are NOT set to snap-to-grid, and (2) you've been gathering a collection of icons all over your desktop, and then (3) you decide to switch your preferences TO snap-to-grid, and then

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Claire Hart
Do you place your icons and then clean up or do you have them sorted in a predefined order ? All I do is snapping every icon (don't know the exact words in the English system, I use the Italian version) to the grid in the Show View Option. Nothing else. I'll tell you what came to mind when I read y

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Larry le Mac
From: "Frank P. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Do you change the resloution of the screen at all? Never, 15" AlBook 1GHz at max res. Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.c

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Larry le Mac
From: Tim Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think somebody already posted a reply to your question a bit earlier today. Yes, I have even switched to snap to grid to stop me from getting pissed off, but it's not really the point I was making, it was more that I couldn't line icons up without them jumpi

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, macpi wrote: > > > > Do you place your icons and then clean up or do > > you have them sorted in a predefined order ? > > All I do is snapping every icon (don't know the exact words in the > English system, I use the Italian version) to the grid in the Show View > Option. > Not

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Tim Collier
I think somebody already posted a reply to your question a bit earlier today. From the desktop, choose the view menu then Show View Options and there you can choose the icon size and how items are displayed on the desktop. You can choose to keep arranged by name or kind or whatever. Personally, I

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread macpi
Do you place your icons and then clean up or do you have them sorted in a predefined order ? All I do is snapping every icon (don't know the exact words in the English system, I use the Italian version) to the grid in the Show View Option. Nothing else. macpi -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Larry le Mac
From: "Laurent Daudelin (No, I'm not a contractor)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What is the presentation before you try to do the cleanup? Do you have the snap to grid option turned on? No, just normal place anywhere... Larry _ Express yours

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread K
macpi wrote: On 01/mar/05, at 16:09, Larry le Mac said: I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over the place, and then not show their actual position until one tries to s

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Larry le Mac
From: macpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In 16 months usage it never happened to me... Do you place your icons and then clean up or do you have them sorted in a predefined order ? Larry _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Laurent Daudelin (No, I'm not a contractor)
On 01/03/05 10:09, "Larry le Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot > believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug > where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over > the place, and then not show their actual position until

Re: OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread macpi
On 01/mar/05, at 16:09, Larry le Mac said: I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over the place, and then not show their actual position until one tries to select them, i

OS X desktop icon bug, I cannot believe...

2005-03-01 Thread Larry le Mac
I am using my AlBook 15" with Mac OS X.3.8 and I cannot believe that OS X still has this bleeding desktop icon bug where a cleanup of the icons causes them to fly all over the place, and then not show their actual position until one tries to select them, i.e. the ones that aren't where they appear