[X4U] Scrambled Desktop

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Mon Nov 13 20:15:02 PST 2006


At 8:07 PM -0800 11/13/06, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>I'm running 10.3.9 and suddenly I'm having major issues with all of 
>my desktop icons moving around and not staying where I put them. 
>This is becoming a serious problem.  Is there any file I can blow 
>away or anything to fix this?

I think I *finally* found the right thing to type into Google.  Looks 
like the answer is this:

rm ~/Desktop/.DS_store ; killall Finder

Now to see how well it works.  Downside is now I have to cleanup and 
reorganize the mess.

	Zane



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