At 5:01 PM -0400 10/2/2008, diane wrote: >I seem to remember that back in the day, the drive you booted from >showed up first on the desktop, then the rest filled in below.
yes. OS 9 and earlier. >Last night I created a bootable backup on my 2nd 500gb drive, set it >as the startup disk and rebooted. My main drive showed up as on top. [snip] >Is this something that has changed along the way in OS X The volumes are shown in the order Finder sees (receives information about) them. +/- timing and the phase of the moon, they're usually shown in partition order. The command "diskutil list", in Terminal, will provide the list. >is there a way I can change it back? I vaguely remember seeing an applescript applet that remembered the location of the icons on your desktop and could set them back. Such an applet run as a login item, should work well. HTH, - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
