One of the things in Lion that annoys me a bit (although it can be useful at times) is how files will automatically move/organize themselves when placed somewhere. For example, say I download a picture and want to put it on my desktop. Before, it would stay right where I put it, and I could manually use "Arrange By" when I was ready to. Now, when I put the picture on the desktop, it will automatically put itself alphabetically already in order on the right hand side. Is there a way to disable this?
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Keep Files From Automatically Organizing Themselves?
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Thanks for the help, but is there an option for a per file basis? For example, I still want the items I have on my desktop to be sorted by name as the default, but when I put a new file on the desktop, I don't want it to fly over there and automatically arrange itself.
Not that I'm aware of, but I'm not aware of a lot of things 
You could limit the behavior within separate folders on the desktop, and then move/download things accordingly, but that seems like a hassle.
You could limit the behavior within separate folders on the desktop, and then move/download things accordingly, but that seems like a hassle.
Yeah that's what I don't get. It never did this in Snow Leopard. Like my hard drives would be mounted on the desktop in the right hand corner, I could drag something onto the desktop and it would stay there. Then, when I wanted to, I would just hit "Arrange by Name" and THEN it would organize itself. Weird.
