Macintosh HD icon won't stay in place!

Hi Fred!

Here's how to fix that. Click a clear space on your Desktop so you see Finder in the Menu. Now, click View/Show View Options. Your Desktop preference pane will open. Click where it says: Snap to Grid There are other options available there also. Close the pane. Your MacintoshHD icon should be in the top right hand corner.

Carolyn 🙂

If Carolyn's suggestion didn't work, then I suspect a corrupt .DS_Store file (an invisible file) which maintains the state of all opened folders, which is what the Desktop really is. In the Terminal.app, assuming that it normally opens to your user folder, indicated by the tilde preceeding the prompt, type these commands (the bold items), followed by the hitting the return key:

*ls -al* -- should return a line similar to this:

-rw-r--r-- 1 baltwo baltwo 15364 Aug 15 17:37 .DS_Store

*rm ".DS_Store"* -- removes that file (you might have to preceed the command with sudo to get it to work

*ls -al* -- ensures that its gone; if so, quit Terminal and restart.

I've found if I put any other icons too close to the hard drive icon it will move after a restart or shutdown but not after sleeping it. This will also happen if you put the hard drive icon too close to the edge of your screen.
If I keep other icons a 1/2" away I have no trouble (distance varies depending on your screen size).

Cheers!
DALE
Message was edited by: Dale Weisshaar

What are the view options for the folder? Command-J... see if it's set to sort by kind or something strange.

Since my fix removed the icon from always displaying at the bottom, it worked. Try this: click on the Desktop, CMD+J, deselect all four display options and reboot. Report back.

Thanks for the feedback. Thanks are most appreciated when the replies are marked, appropriately. Good computing.