On 27/12/2007, at 11:28 PM, Alex wrote:
Hi Wamuggians
I have a problem that happens randomly. Every now and then the desk
top items go haywire and the majority of them lob on top of the HD
icon while some of the others go elsewhere. I think that this may be
happening when a file (Usually pdf) is being downloaded from the
internet. When I go to Finder/View, Snap to Grid is selected. I am
using a G4 iMac OS 10.3.9. Can anyone explain this phenomenon and
what I can do to prevent it happening again
Wishing all of you and your families a great New Year with good
health, happiness & prosperity.
Cheers, Alex
How many items do you have on your desktop? They really should be kept
to a minimum (a discipline that few of are able to follow rigorously,
myself included). A couple of things to try:
1. Designate some other folder on your hard drive as your Downloads
folder (Leopard solves this, but with a little TOO much discipline)
2. Keep items on the desktop organised in some sort of "Arrange by"
order. I find "kind" works best for me.
3. Try to regularly cull or re-locate Desktop icons on a regular basis
(the hard part).
The lesson was well and truly drummed home to me on a client's eMac.
He was complaining that the computer was running so slowly it was
almost unusable. I found that problem was that he had over 800 (!)
icons piled up on top of his Hard Drive icon on the Desktop. Mac OS X
uses (for some reason) a huge number of processor cycles trying to
draw icons in this way. Once I showed the client how to view his
Desktop icons in List view he was able to start implementing a more
sensible management system. It took a long time to sort out, though,
with all the drawing and re-drawing.
--
Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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