There's nothing mysterious about the OS X Desktop other than recognizing that each user has his/her own and that the Desktop folder is within one's User folder. I use the Desktop a lot -- perhaps too much. For those times when I can't find something amid all the Desktop clutter, I've put an alias of the Desktop folder on the Desktop [wheels within wheels] which pops open a list view of the Desktop. Can't decide whether this is brilliant or too stupid for words. But it does work. ------------- Steve St-Laurent | <st-laur at holecomm.ca> | <http://www.holecomm.ca> Hole-in-the-Wall Communications, Vancouver, BC, Canada | 604 251 0700