Mac newbie..How to make "Macintosh HD" icon STICK in upper left of screen?

[DataTracer]

Wow, so many opinions...

So far in this thread I've read basically that (and I paraphrase) ...

.) Icons belong on the right, and you should just get used to it because that's the way it's always been
.) There's no way to keep hard drive icons on the left so you should give up trying
.) My/Apples way is the only way
.) Desktops are useless
.) Alias to hack the problem

Well guess what folks! ... everyone is different. We all have preferences. That's what's so great about choices. Want an OS that gives you choices? Use Linux! Apple does so many things right, but this is just one of those areas that would be so easy to fix, and they just don't do it.

If you search google (or your favorite search) for info about how to change desktop icon positions, or default icons to the left, etc. you'll find a LOT of people unhappy with icons defaulting to the upper right. One of them being ME!

I'm not saying Mac shouldn't default to the right. If that's the way they designed it and most people use it that way, then fine, but there SHOULD be the option to change it to the left. I'll bet if I dig deep enough, there's probably a way to change it in the terminal somehow ;-)

 

[kresh]

So far in this thread I've read basically that (and I paraphrase) ...

.) Icons belong on the right, and you should just get used to it because that's the way it's always been
.) There's no way to keep hard drive icons on the left so you should give up trying
.) My/Apples way is the only way
.) Desktops are useless
.) Alias to hack the problem

Well guess what folks! ... everyone is different. We all have preferences. That's what's so great about choices. Want an OS that gives you choices? Use Linux! Apple does so many things right, but this is just one of those areas that would be so easy to fix, and they just don't do it.

If you search google (or your favorite search) for info about how to change desktop icon positions, or default icons to the left, etc. you'll find a LOT of people unhappy with icons defaulting to the upper right. One of them being ME!

I'm not saying Mac shouldn't default to the right. If that's the way they designed it and most people use it that way, then fine, but there SHOULD be the option to change it to the left. I'll bet if I dig deep enough, there's probably a way to change it in the terminal somehow ;-)

I hear your frustration, but there are some frustrations on the part of long-time Mac users as well.

Lately this board has been inundated with posts complaining about one thing or another about OS X. Alot of these posts have been along the lines of "Well I just switched to Mac, I like it but I wish functionx was like Windows"

It seems a lot of new Mac users are expecting OS X to be Windows with a different name. It's really getting old.

Edit: I don't mean your post, just posts in general from new users complaining that OS X doesn't do something like Windows.

 

[Roy Hobbs]

Hi guys,

I just got a new iMac not too long ago.

I trying to make the Macintosh HD icon stick in the top left corner of the screen (a la Windows). However, after I reboot, the Macintosh HD icon automatically restores itself to the top right corner of the screen.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a solution?

Thanks guys.

OS X isnt windows so please don't try to make it look and behave like windows

 

[Cloudane]

General rule of thumb with Macs: It's Apple's way or the highway. (But there are usually hacks if it bothers you that badly)

It can be a little frustrating sometimes not having options, I know, but it's a slippery slope. I've used Linux before with its 27 calculators, 15 GUIs, 11 web browsers, 5 word processors and a penguin in a pear tree. It's a horrible mess. (And few of them will co-operate, so much for the spirit of open source). I definitely prefer that Apple concentrate on doing something 1 way and doing it well, rather than cluttering everything up with options. It's the philosophy they've always gone by, and sticking to a philosophy is generally a good idea with things like this. As I've said in another thread, Apple's philosophy on computing is what makes them unique, and if they started changing this, I'd be very worried!

There's also the consistency issue when you go from your Mac to someone else's: you know what to expect. It's easy to say "but it's only an icon alignment preference, it won't hurt anyone".. but if everyone said this for every little feature you can imagine where it'd go

I'd just get used to it. Me, it was a welcome return to the "correct" alignment from my Amiga days... that is, before they put them in the wrong place in Workbench 2.0 onwards

 

[Ish]

My HD icon usually sits in the top right, but every now and then decides to come out of its corner for a visit. Much less often with snap to grid but there doesn't seem to be any reason behind it.