This was an interesting exercise Peter!

When I went to the 'Show View Options' and selected 'Keep Arranged by Kind',
my desktop icon all formed into three piles. One in the top left corner, one
just below that and the third in the top right corner.

An interesting experience :-)

Ken... 

On 1/6/04 8:42 AM, "Peter Hinchliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On 31/05/2004, at 7:00 PM, Alex Novakovic wrote:
> 
>> Hi again guys
>> 
>> My HD icon keeps jumping down the screen each time I boot up.  Not a
>> huge problem but a tad annoying.  It has been recommended to me to
>> trash the Finder preference file, which I did (the one that resides in
>> User/Myname/......), but for no joy.
>> 
>> Any ideas, please?
>> 
>> Many thanks in advance again,  Alex
>> 
> 
> Have you tried Finder > View > Show View Options > Keep Arranged By
> (checkbox)? If you specify "Kind" in the popup menu it should force the
> issue.
> 
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