My desktop is missing!!

[Grunze]

Hello,

All icons have disappeared from my desktop.
They still appear in a finder window, but not on the actual desktop.
The desktop also seems to be locked. Whenever i drag something to it, it rejects it. I am able to copy to desktop via a finder window.

Any ideas?????

 

[kalisphoenix]

Repair permissions? Check the Finder Preferences and View Options?

 

[Eidorian]

I'd check to see what your permissions are on ~/Desktop.

 

[Grunze]

I cant even click or drag a box on my desktop..
Everything seems fine in the prefs.

How do I repair permissions?

Thanks!

 

[swiftaw]

I cant even click or drag a box on my desktop..
Everything seems fine in the prefs.

How do I repair permissions?

Thanks!

Applications->Utilities->Disk Utility

 

[flyfish29]

force quit and relaunch the finder?

 

[Grunze]

No luck..
I tried repairing my disk permissions
I tried rebooting
I tried force quit on finder..

Anything else I can try?

 

[swiftaw]

No luck..
I tried repairing my disk permissions
I tried rebooting
I tried force quit on finder..

Anything else I can try?

Try creating a new user account and see if that suffers from the same problems

 

[flyfish29]

What might you have done lately to tweak your Mac...new software, have you used Terminal for anything, reconfigured something??

 

[Grunze]

SWEEEEEEET!!!

I installed tinkertool earlier today and completely forgot!
Tinkertool had a checkbox saying disable desktop funcionality!

Problem solved!!

Thanks!!

 

[flyfish29]

SWEEEEEEET!!!

I installed tinkertool earlier today and completely forgot!
Tinkertool had a checkbox saying disable desktop funcionality!

Problem solved!!

Thanks!!

Great- but why would someone want to disable desktop functionality- I assume for a kiosk type use of a Mac?