Hello Ronni, I'm pleased (and relieved) to say that steps 1 to 3 in your email worked a treat. Thank you,
Michael Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Jul 2016, at 12:52 PM, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > >> On 6 Jul 2016, at 10:34 PM, Michael Hawkins >> <michael.hawk...@mjhawkins.com.au> wrote: >> >> I attempted to tidy up the desktop on my MacBook Pro by creating new >> Folders, naming them, and dragging and dropping into the new Folders the >> various items I’d saved on the Desktop. >> >> For some reason (a) various items that I had not dragged into a Folder are >> now in the Folder, (b) each new Folder contains a folder which has the same >> name as the Folder on the desktop and (c) each of the folders within a >> Folder contains the same items as are in the Folder I created. >> >> What has gone wrong, and how can I correct it? >> >> MacBook Pro 17 inch, late 2011 >> 2.4 GHz intel Core i7 >> 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 >> >> Yosemite version 10.10.5 >> >> Thank you, >> >> Michael Hawkins > > Hello Michael, > > Are sure you created New Folders not Smart Folders, and moved the items > correctly into the New Folders? > <https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18762?locale=en_US> > > If so: > Try deleting the Desktop Preference file. > 1. Go to your user ~/library > In Finder, Hold down the Alt (Option) & click Go menu - select Library > (The user library folder is listed below the current user's home directory.) > > 2. Open Library - then scroll to Preferences and find com.apple.finder.plist > and move it to your Desktop. (don't worry, it will recreate when you restart > finder.) > > 3. Restart your MBP > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > El Capitan OS X 10.11.5 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
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