Info-Mac

Hi Info-Mac,

Just a brief question.
I have an iMac (dual core, 24 inches... OS 10.6.2)
Everything is fine except a small but very annoying problem.

I use the "desktop" much.
Since the display is vast, I organize my current icons by "regions".
To the left side for this, at the top for that, near the trash can for likely "trashable" documents... etc.

Everything is OK until I restart my computer.
Then all my icons go to the right side of the monitor, like windows does on the left side.
It disorganize my arrangement.
I have looked at all the prefs and settings.
Searched everywhere (almost) for a solution to this...
It seems that there is no way to prevent this.
What am I missing???
Thank you very much.

Normand

Well, what you described seems odd but each person has their own workflow. I can't think of any reason Mac OS would rearrange your desktop icons if you don't have the auto-arrange option enabled. If you go to View -> Show View Options, I usually keep this setting to "Snap to Grid" so that icons conform to clean rows and columns, but the other settings would have the effect you described. That being said, they would have effect immediately and you would never be able to arrange the icons in the first place with for example "Arrange by Name" turned on.
Perhaps your computer is somehow losing the icon arrangement every time you restart? First thing to try (in any problem really) is repair permissions and restart.

Thank you Turboladdade for your answer. I have tries everything you have suggested and more. I have trashed the finder prefs, zapped the pram... Nothing solve the problem. I searched on internet about that. It seems that I am not alone! Phew! I read somewhere that it is a bug and that we will have to wait for an upgrade from Apple. I have organized my files to reduce the impact of this problem but such a problem should not be there.
I will hope that a next upgrade will solve it.
Thank you

Normand