Q: Filename labels overlapping icons
On one of my external drives, the filename labels in some instances are overlapping the folder icons, and in others they are quite a distance from the icon. When I backed up to a new drive the problem was transferred. Is their something to trash to reset this just for an external drive?
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Dec 16, 2015 5:54 PM
I've finally resolved this issue almost 10 months later!
It seems when you do a wholesale transfer of all the files in the folder or drive. via a copy or Select All copy, it copies the underlying structure files. I suspect some of these files have been there since OS 9.
So what I did was create a new empty folder and then copied the files over in batches. This ensured the underlying structure files (invisible) weren't copied as well.
You can do this in list view. So when copied across just clean up and the dodgy layout file is left behind.
Posted on Aug 25, 2016 9:59 PM
