jsalzer said:
Well, as long as this thread is here and the original has been answered, I'm going to ask a dumb question. In OSX, I find that my "Macintosh HD" icon won't stay in what has always been its home - in the upper right hand corner.
Every time I reboot, it removes itself from that location, leaving the corner empty. I generally move it back, but I do so knowing I'll have to move it back again the next morning.
Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas? It really is kind of annoying.
Thanks!
Here's something to try which
might work and which
won't hurt anything:
Open up Terminal (Applications->Utilities->Terminal). In the Terminal window, type (hitting 'return' after each line):
cd ~/Desktop
mv .DS_Store OldDS_Store
Then you can quit Terminal.
This will get rid off the .DS_Store file which tracks the locations of icons in the directory. It's not a necessary file - you can delete it and it'll get regenerated. The command above merely moves it elsewhere. To move it back, if you want to, you can always repeat the above and enter:
cd ~/Desktop
mv OldDS_Store .DS_Store
Anyway, before moving it back (which is actually not necessary), see if the "dead" area now goes away. If it works, don't move the old file back. In fact, you'll almost undoubtedly never need to move it back.
This might not work, but it won't hurt anything.
Edit: you might actually need to do this from another account, as it seems to do nothing when you're logged in and, obviously, using your Desktop, which means the Desktop's .DS_Store file is in memory. That makes this a non-beginner project. Easy, but not so easy that you might not mess something up.