On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Charles J. Thompson wrote: > Luke, > > I'm guessing that by "migrating" you mean they are being re-ordered, > top to bottom. That might happen if you have the desktop "Show View > Options" is set to "Date Modified" rather than "Name" or "Kind". Of > course, even setting to Name or Kind will still result in re-ordering > when a new desktop icon is created that doesn't naturally belong on > the bottom of the set of icons. > > Cheers! > Charles > > while on the desktop, go under view --- show view options (command+J). and when there click the keep arranged by box. This will turn that off and you can arrange them anywhere on the desktop and in any order and they will not move unless u move them.