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Q: Lion Keeps Re-arranging my Folders

In Snow Leopard I used to make my folders simply snap to grid and I used to arrange them into an order that suited me.

 

In Lion when I do this, be it on the desktop, downloads folder or simply my user home, after a few times of accessing, the folders move randomly or get sorted by lion.

 

Any ideas why this is happeneing and how I can stop it from happening?

27, Mac OS X (10.7), 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD

Posted on Jul 27, 2011 6:54 AM

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  • by billearl,

    billearl billearl Oct 13, 2011 1:34 AM in response to MaestroCreep3k
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    Oct 13, 2011 1:34 AM in response to MaestroCreep3k

    MaestroCreep3k wrote:

     

    you said that it went away for you with the first build you tried ... did it stay fixed with later builds for you as well?

    Yes, totally fixed on my system. It's been fine for the last six weeks, including now.

     

    Prior to that, the problem wasn't quite as severe on my machine as some people reported, but many folders frequently forgot their settings and my desktop was messed up several times, enough to be extremely annoying.

  • by MaestroCreep3k,

    MaestroCreep3k MaestroCreep3k Oct 13, 2011 1:52 AM in response to billearl
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    Oct 13, 2011 1:52 AM in response to billearl

    well I'm going to have to eat my own words and a huge heaping pile of them at that .... it actually appears to be fixed after all on my machine ... I was comparing 2 different folders entirely ... in other words a very lazy mistake on my part ... time to own up and recieve my public flogging

  • by jannuss,

    jannuss jannuss Oct 13, 2011 3:39 AM in response to MaestroCreep3k
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    Oct 13, 2011 3:39 AM in response to MaestroCreep3k

    Let's not break out the chanpaign quite yet.

     

    10.7.2 does indeed appear to remember all my folder view option settings (position, background color, etc.)

     

    BUT

     

    In Mail/Attach file, when I use column mode to search for a file and then return to the Finder, my folder appears in colum mode.

    I click icon mode and all is well.

     

    Minor annoyance, true, but it means that the bug is not totally erradicated.

     

    Janet

  • by dackman,

    dackman dackman Oct 13, 2011 3:44 AM in response to jannuss
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    Oct 13, 2011 3:44 AM in response to jannuss

    Total disaster for me. At first I saw that icons were staying where they should be, but now I find that whenever I save a file from any app, the app crashes, then the finder crashes, and I have to restart. Well done Apple, you have rendered my computer inoperable, and I need to earn a living by using it. Help - what can I do?

  • by jannuss,

    jannuss jannuss Oct 13, 2011 3:57 AM in response to dackman
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    Oct 13, 2011 3:57 AM in response to dackman

    Dackman, could you be moe specific describing your problem.

     

    I'm having no difficulty opening/saving/moving files.

     

    Check out the Console log -- maybe there's an error message that will explain the problem.

  • by dackman,

    dackman dackman Oct 13, 2011 4:03 AM in response to jannuss
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    Oct 13, 2011 4:03 AM in response to jannuss

    Sorry - I don't want to hijack this thread into a different topic. I don't really understand the console log, but there are a ton of 'sandboxd' errors in there:

     

    13/10/2011 11:57:33.201 sandboxd: ([509]) WebProcess(509) deny mach-lookup ATS Query Port 365

    and some of these
    13/10/2011 11:58:02.000 kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
    Should I start a new topic with this, and leave this one to the moving icons?

  • by jannuss,

    jannuss jannuss Oct 13, 2011 4:24 AM in response to dackman
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    Oct 13, 2011 4:24 AM in response to dackman

    Yes, this sounds like an entirely different problem -- I'd guess some combination of disk curruption and/or an old utilitiy that can't handle the upgrade.

     

    Good luck finding the problem!

     

    [as a first step, you might run Disk Utility/Repair permissions]

     

    Janet

  • by SunnyvalePGA,

    SunnyvalePGA SunnyvalePGA Oct 13, 2011 4:31 AM in response to Cheese21Cheese
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    Oct 13, 2011 4:31 AM in response to Cheese21Cheese

    Until now, my desktop has been unaffected by the problem.  Just folder icons were scrambled.  I just installed 10.7.2, and now all my desktop icons are scrambled.

  • by dackman,

    dackman dackman Oct 13, 2011 4:32 AM in response to jannuss
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    Oct 13, 2011 4:32 AM in response to jannuss

    Yes, I think you're right. On the plus side, despite all my forced restarts my icons are all still in the right place!

  • by Cheese21Cheese,

    Cheese21Cheese Cheese21Cheese Oct 13, 2011 4:41 AM in response to Cheese21Cheese
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    Oct 13, 2011 4:41 AM in response to Cheese21Cheese

    So is the general consensus that it has been resolved? Ive rolled back to SL and dont want to reinstall if theres still a chance the folders wont stay put?

  • by RogerJoensson,

    RogerJoensson RogerJoensson Oct 13, 2011 5:09 AM in response to Cheese21Cheese
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    Oct 13, 2011 5:09 AM in response to Cheese21Cheese

    My desktop icon problem (decribed on page 7) still persists in 10.7.2.

     

    If I have an icon on the desktop closer than about 100 pixels to the left border, the icons sometimes gets scrambled after restart. After finding this problem in 10.7.1 all icons on the desktop has stayed put, until I tried to move one today...

     

    If I use the shortcut command-J in the finder and try to adjust the icon size, all icons closer than about 100pixels  to the left border jumps to the right and wont come back. It doesn't matter if I reduce the size or increase it. These icons still end up on the right side.

    All the other icons stay put. -Not like a restart, when all positions gets scrambled.

  • by paulimausi,

    paulimausi paulimausi Oct 13, 2011 5:15 AM in response to paulimausi
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    Oct 13, 2011 5:15 AM in response to paulimausi

    Mac OS X 10.7.2 seems to have solved my problems. The Finder remembers icon positions correctly and Mail remembers account settings correctly. Knock on wood.

  • by Maclarean,

    Maclarean Maclarean Oct 13, 2011 7:48 AM in response to paulimausi
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    Oct 13, 2011 7:48 AM in response to paulimausi

    Same here, 10.7.2 corrected the problem. I originally wrote on page 3 of this post. Now my folders are were I left them, and the icons (I use icon view) stay were I left them. Even if I use "save as" in programs everything stays as should. Phew.

  • by Brett C,

    Brett C Brett C Oct 17, 2011 12:56 PM in response to Cheese21Cheese
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    Oct 17, 2011 12:56 PM in response to Cheese21Cheese

    10.7.2 seems to have solved it for me.

     

    I've been trying to reproduce the problem for a couple days now since updating and so far my home folder icons are still nicely arranged where I left them. prior to 10.7.1 I could trigger the problem almost every time I saved an attachment in Mail. but not under 10.7.2

  • by Ian Sen,

    Ian Sen Ian Sen Oct 17, 2011 7:35 PM in response to Brett C
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    Oct 17, 2011 7:35 PM in response to Brett C

    According to MacFixit's article "OSX 10.7.2: What if fixed and what it didn't"

     

    the problem with Finder Icon Arrangement "...appears to have been addressed".

     

    Fingers crossed...

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