Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Volker
I had a similar issue with my Intel iMac. A autoclean with AppleJack fixed the problem. The only drawback to AppleJack is that you have to run it in single user mode (hold down cmd-s after the startup chime.) See here for more info: http://applejack.sourceforge.net/ HTH, Eric On Feb 21,

Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-22 Thread Pleasant Grove Vineyard
I dumped the preferences without any change, I had already fixed the permissions. I noticed that I can move windows around but I can't move items in the windows. Later today I'll try some of the other suggestions. Thanks Leo On Feb 21, 9:11 pm, Cyrus callmemrp...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes

Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-22 Thread Clark Martin
Pleasant Grove Vineyard wrote: I dumped the preferences without any change, I had already fixed the permissions. I noticed that I can move windows around but I can't move items in the windows. Later today I'll try some of the other suggestions. I haven't been following this but it sounds

10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-21 Thread hillhippy
This weekend I decided that OS10.5 was old enough to try installing it on my PM 2.7 G5. Expecting that things could go wrong I kept the drive with OS10.4.11, and formatted a drive for 10.5.install Ran the installer and it consistantly failed if I tried to use the feature in the configuration

Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-21 Thread Cyrus
Sometimes your user preferences can get corrupted over time, or by having the application they are for crash. I would try moving the desktop and finder preferences to a new folder, forcing the OS to create a new one. These are in the Users[your username] LibraryPreferencescom.apple.desktop.plist

Re: 10.5.6 Desktop Icons can't be moved

2009-02-21 Thread insightinmind
You might try the free OnyX for Leopard. Don't know which options to use, but it can help with issues like this. Maybe something that Rebuilds things. Maybe you'll locate an expert in the meantime ... Bill Connelly artsite: http://mysite.verizon.net/moonstoneartstudio myspace: