RE: Drive order on desktop

2008-10-03 Thread diane
At 10:15 PM +0100 10/2/08, Simon Royal wrote: >Diane > >Have a look under the 'View' menu in finder, select 'Show View Options'. > >Select 'Keep Arranged By' and select 'Name'. > >Should keep things arranged, always keeps my boot drive at the top, >even if my other drive is named something that i

Re: Drive order on desktop

2008-10-02 Thread diane
At 5:25 PM -0400 10/2/08, Dan wrote: >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. I really just want the one that is the boot volume to show up first. F

Re: Drive order on desktop

2008-10-02 Thread Dan
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 rebo

RE: Drive order on desktop

2008-10-02 Thread Simon Royal
ower alphabetically than my boot. Simon --- www.simonroyal.co.uk and www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Drive order on desktop From: diane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 02/10/2008 22:01 I seem to remember that back in the day, the drive you booted from showed up first

Drive order on desktop

2008-10-02 Thread diane
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. (when they were listed on the desktop in the upper right hand corner) Last night I created a bootable backup on my 2nd 500gb drive, set it as the startup disk and r