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Question for those who use the stack overlay icons

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writeous

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For those who use the stack icons, does it cause your dock the crash upon start up? Everytime I restart my MBP, when I have the icons placed in the dock, everything loads up but the dock, and it usually takes about 5 to 10 seconds to appear. I can tell when the dock crashes by looking at console, and also the desktop background changes when it happens. I reinstalled Leopard just to see if it was a problem with something else, but as soon as I put the icon back, it crashes again. 🙁
 
I dont think overlays could really cause the problem, because it is nothing more and a file (or folder) with an icon, that you told to stay on top.
 
writeous said:
For those who use the stack icons, does it cause your dock the crash upon start up? Everytime I restart my MBP, when I have the icons placed in the dock, everything loads up but the dock, and it usually takes about 5 to 10 seconds to appear. I can tell when the dock crashes by looking at console, and also the desktop background changes when it happens. I reinstalled Leopard just to see if it was a problem with something else, but as soon as I put the icon back, it crashes again. 🙁
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No problems at all...
 
I'm sure this is covered somewhere already, but how do you get the icon to stay on the top? I've tried sorting by name and having a folder called _ which works fine for a while, then seems to stop working. I've tried 1111 too, same happens. It seems that if I have a folder with the icon called 1, then download a file called 2, 2 goes on top even though it's sorted by name!

Any clues as to what's going wrong?
 
psonice said:
I'm sure this is covered somewhere already, but how do you get the icon to stay on the top? I've tried sorting by name and having a folder called _ which works fine for a while, then seems to stop working. I've tried 1111 too, same happens. It seems that if I have a folder with the icon called 1, then download a file called 2, 2 goes on top even though it's sorted by name!

Any clues as to what's going wrong?
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I stumbled across the answer to this by accident.
You don't sort by file modification date in the menu bar but rather by right clicking on the stack itself where a menu to sort will appear. Choose "sort by modification date".

From then on, the translucent overlay will always be on top.
 
you need to form an Terminal command, so its modification date changes to 1 january, 2020. is shall post it here:

cd ~/Downloads

touch -mt 202001010101.01 " Downloads "

CHange downloads into the stack you want. Have fun.
 
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I use the "Draws" and so far I haven't had any problems...
 
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