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OS X Lion 10.7 Finder bug in icon-view? icons randomly moved around and/or off-grid

b.c.

b.c.

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anybody else notice this strange Finder behavior in icon-view after upgrading to Lion?

I have a bunch of folder and document icons in the root level of my home folder neatly arranged in a grid
The folder's view options (Cmd-J) are set to:
- always open in icon view
- arrange by None (i.e. manually arranged)
- snap to grid
- icon size 32x32

normally when I re-open my home folder, all the icons are where I put them (as you would expect)

However, since upgrading to Lion, every once in a while when I now open my home folder, the icon icon arrangement is all messed up
- many of the icons have moved to random locations in the window, some of them off-grid and overlapping other icons. The Finder seems to be randomly moving them around on its own.

so far, I haven't figured out what triggers this behavior, so I can't repeat it on-demand. however it happens several times daily every since I upgraded to Lion just a few days ago. If I manually rearrange the icons again, everything is fine for a while but at some point they get randomly messed up again, for no apparent reason. I've even tried deleting my Finder preferences file & rebooting in case there's some weirdness/corruption to some setting that carried over when I upgraded the OS. but it still happens randomly.

anybody else notice this?

other than this, my Lion upgrade seems to be fine.
this is on an old 15" Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, Mac OS X 10.7
 
same here... my MacBookPro3,1 (late 2007) hangs when it sleeps (not due to Lion) just because I have 2 hds,
but it happened twice already when i reboot the icons go all together on right instead of staying in their bloody place!

I have an external DVI monitor as master. Don't know if that's the problem as well.

Any solutions perhaps??
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EDIT: here's an apple forum thread i've found:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15766672
 
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Gian-Pa said:
same here... my MacBookPro3,1 (late 2007) hangs when it sleeps (not due to Lion) just because I have 2 hds,
but it happened twice already when i reboot the icons go all together on right instead of staying in their bloody place!

I have an external DVI monitor as master. Don't know if that's the problem as well.

Any solutions perhaps??
--

EDIT: here's an apple forum thread i've found:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15766672
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Re: external DVI monitor, I wonder if you have a clue there?

I forgot to mention, I use my MBP at home and work, but when at work I connect to an external DVI monitor. It's not my primary display in my case, but now that I think of it, it's probably only/mainly while at work when I've noticed the icons all moved around.

Bit it's not right after connecting the monitor, or right after waking from sleep or from screensaver - it still seems to happen at random times while I'm working then reopen my home folder. But maybe there's some relation to having the extended desktop on two displays...
 
b.c. said:
anybody else notice this strange Finder behavior in icon-view after upgrading to Lion?

I have a bunch of folder and document icons in the root level of my home folder neatly arranged in a grid
The folder's view options (Cmd-J) are set to:
- always open in icon view
- arrange by None (i.e. manually arranged)
- snap to grid
- icon size 32x32

normally when I re-open my home folder, all the icons are where I put them (as you would expect)

However, since upgrading to Lion, every once in a while when I now open my home folder, the icon icon arrangement is all messed up
- many of the icons have moved to random locations in the window, some of them off-grid and overlapping other icons. The Finder seems to be randomly moving them around on its own.

so far, I haven't figured out what triggers this behavior, so I can't repeat it on-demand. however it happens several times daily every since I upgraded to Lion just a few days ago. If I manually rearrange the icons again, everything is fine for a while but at some point they get randomly messed up again, for no apparent reason. I've even tried deleting my Finder preferences file & rebooting in case there's some weirdness/corruption to some setting that carried over when I upgraded the OS. but it still happens randomly.

anybody else notice this?

other than this, my Lion upgrade seems to be fine.
this is on an old 15" Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, Mac OS X 10.7
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yes same here its drivign me nuts!!! I have found out that the save/open drop down menu might be the reason or part of the reason heres a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQp5kraLL8M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
 
Whiteman007 said:
yes same here its drivign me nuts!!! I have found out that the save/open drop down menu might be the reason or part of the reason heres a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQp5kraLL8M&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Click to expand...

hi, watched your video, then tried doing some file saves, and now I can reproduce the problem! thanks for your input

so I think you're right, the save dialog box seems to have something to do with it.

for example:

- I manually move my home folder icons where I want them, in Icon view
- select all the icons, then do a View/Clean Up Selection (to make sure they're all on-grid)
- close the home folder
- open Mail
- choose an email message with an attachment
- save the attachment to the home folder, via the save dialog box that pops up
- go back to the Finder, open the home folder
- icons are now all messed up again: many moved to different locations, some off grid and overlapping other icons
- it seems to trigger it every time

VERY annoying, and definitely a bug introduced with Lion
 
So that's what has been happening to my Finder in Lion: it seems that every time I use the open/save dialogue box, the Finder will reset my folders from my normal Icon view into list/column view. This is a very annoying bug and it is still present in 10.7.2 build 11C55, so more than likely it will not be addressed in 10.7.2.
 
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