Strange Mail icon (was Fwd: Strange desktop icon)

2006-09-05 Thread Shay Telfer
From: Laurie McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 August 2006 10:22:36 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Fwd: Strange desktop icon Hi to the experts... Not the same icon that I have received. Mine is in Mail 2.0.7 where the SPAM symbol usually presents itself

Fwd: Strange desktop icon

2006-09-03 Thread Laurie McDonald
From: Laurie McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 August 2006 10:22:36 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Fwd: Strange desktop icon Hi to the experts... Not the same icon that I have received. Mine is in Mail 2.0.7 where the SPAM symbol usually presents itself

Re: Strange desktop icon

2006-09-03 Thread Roger
That more than likely means the message was high priority. Roger On 3/9/06 3:43 PM, Laurie McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Laurie McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 August 2006 10:22:36 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Fwd: Strange desktop icon Hi

Re: Re: Strange desktop icon

2006-08-22 Thread James Devenish
Hi, Does this problem persist after logging-out/logging-in and restarting? Sometimes the Dock becomes confused, and can cause transient problems with the Desktop. The Dock can be gracefully quit via the Activity Monitor (Applications Utilities), and it will be automatically re-launched. If this

Re: Strange desktop icon

2006-08-22 Thread Reg Whitely
Sounds like the big translucent blue button I had floating over the desktop once. There was a way to disable it in some system prefs and/ or Terminal from memory? Reg On 20 Aug 2006, at 3:08pm, Aurora wrote: Hi, The apple happy face has suddenly appeared as an icon on the lower left hand

Re: Strange desktop icon

2006-08-21 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi... It's happening on my machine too (10.4.6). It's as if the Finder icon jumped out of the Dock and got stuck. The icon is floating in front of all other windows. Not sure what I've recently changed that might have caused this. Low disk space as usual may be a culprit :) Annoyingly the

Strange desktop icon

2006-08-20 Thread Aurora
Hi, The apple happy face has suddenly appeared as an icon on the lower left hand side of my OSX desktop. It is sitting over the desktop image and is not an active icon - there is just the image. Can anyone please explain why it has appeared and how I get rid of it Smiles Aurora

Re: Strange desktop icon

2006-08-20 Thread Rob Findlay
It's possible that you have inadvertently made an alias to the finder. The finder (little happy face) is an actual program that lives in system/library/core services. You can't move it or copy it without changing the permissions but you can make as alias of it. Has the happy face got a little