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.
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