Hi, I have a Mac Pro tower that is running Mountain Lion (10.8.5). When I came to work this morning, some settings on my machine had changed. My computer seemed to be in a deep sleep, though I had previously set it to never sleep. Sure enough, the Energy Saver setting (in System Preferences) had been reset to "Put hard disks to sleep when possible." Maybe a sysadmin adjusted some of my settings, but that seems strange.
I also noticed that all of the internal hard drives had icons on the desktop, even though I had previously had the Hard disks box unchecked in the General tab of Finder Preferences. When I looked, the box was now checked, so that explains why the disk icons are on my desktop. But when I try to uncheck that box, nothing happens. I seem to be able to check and uncheck other boxes in Finder Preferences, but not any of the 4 that control which items show on the desktop. Does this mean that my system or hard drive has somehow been corrupted? I rebooted in Recovery Mode and ran Disk Utility to repair the boot drive and to repair permissions, but that did not help. Is there a command line option to control what is shown on the desktop? Is there some plist file that I should delete? Thanks, Gregg P.S. Probably this is a sign that I should upgrade to Mavericks. :) _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
