OK, we got two really strange things going on here. When I got my Macbook last Wednesday, and booted it up, and set it up for the first time, I noticed something. There were no icons on my desktop. Macintosh HD wasn't even there. I've sinse gone into the finder preferences and set it to show hard disks, external hard disks, CD and DVD's, IPods... ya know, pretty much everythiing except for servers, as at this time at least, I dont' see that being necessary.
Anyway, what I am finding is I have the voiceover cursor set to follow the keyboard kursor. Same goes vice versa. I also have it said for the keyboard cursor to follow the voice over cursor. I don't think I have the mouse following the voiceover cursor. In fact, I know I don't. Anyway, when on my desktop, if I have more than one item up there, like, say I have my portible external USB hard drive mounted to the desktop, as well as my Macintosh HD. Well, what I find is happening, which is so! wstrange! is that say I am on Macintosh HD, and right below it is my Portible drive, and yes, that is literally the name of its volume... Portible... So what I see happens is it's really quirky about letting me go between the two. If I'm on Macintosh HD, and I either down arrow, or vo+down arrow, either/or, sometimes it'll focus me on my portible volume, but other times it will either bwonk at me, and do nothing, or, sometimes it'll clame! it's on the next icon down, which is this example would be my portible volume, but then if I hit command+o to open it, it's openning my macintosh HD instead of Portible like it should be. I'm just so not getting this! I've never! ever! on anyone elses Mac seen this issue. It's driving me nuts! trying to figure out why it's doing that! One time, I even went as far as to put my IWorks DVD in the drive, which is saw no problem, but it didn't mount to the desktop. I wound up hitting eject on the keyboard, popping it out, then sliding it back in, again, at which point, it mounted properly. Is that? not the oddest thing? So, that's my first problem. My second problem is, when I go into a finder window, I am finding it always! regardless! sets itself to icon view. I dono why, but I? hate! icon view. Ab, suh, lootly? hate it! Again, I don't know why, but I do. I prefer collumn view. Well, yeah, I can always just do command+3, no issues, but, why won't it remember my settings across the whole system. Heck, it's not even remembering it within one folder. Like, if I go to my home folder from the desktop, hit command+3, then command+w to close that folder, if I then do command+shift+h to bring it up again, it goes right? back to icon view, making me all? over again, have to do command+3. I've noticed this problem pretty much on every Mac I ever've played with, so it's not an issue with my OS. Now, the other issue? I haven't seen on any other Mac, however, reinstalling SL did no good. I had a totally unrelated issue that due to my! stupidity, I had to redo my system, but even before I redid it, the desktop was acting really funny. I dono, it's not that big of a deal, seeing I can go through a finder window to computer, then browse to what I need, but, it is nice to have the desktop, if I can use it. Chris. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
