Desktop Icons on auto arrange and can't switch off.

Right-Click on desktop, select Show View Options and then, for Arrange By, select "None" in pull-down list.

"None" does not show up in my "arrange by." There are several sorting options available but no way to turn them off, nor to keep the icons from slamming to the right side of the screen. There must be some way to turn this auto arranging off. I don't want all my desktop icons on the right, and I don't necessarily want one of the few apple sorting options.

Does any one have a soltion? Please!

Cpto

Thanks tlou37. That did it. I feel a little dumb for not trying to turn off auto-arrange that way. OTOH, I wonder why it's not in the drop-down menu when you right-click the desktop. Seems like a logical place to put it.

C

i am having the same problem as GatorMarc. Sometimes, not all the time, if i try to move an icon to the other side of the desktop, it snaps back to where it was and sometimes it just reorders them. i can't seem to replicate the problem when i want to.. just when i don't want to.

Same issue.. waiting on someone to answer this one!!

Robin, Are you saying that with "None" selected, if you drag an icon to another part of the desktop it "snaps" back into an organised grid ?

Ya I got it...Go to the View Menu for the Finder, Command J. Select Show View Options >and then select None in the Arrange By pull down menu. Hope this helps, it took care of it for me.

cpto, Glad you have solved your issue.

It is however on the right-click menu - in a fashion. "Show View Options" (the option under "Keep Arranged By") loads the same dialog as mentioned by tlou37.

I am having the same problem.

View Options are set to None.

But icons are stuck on the right side of the screen. Clicking on one re-orders the icons, but you can't move them anywhere else.

Update:

I have been able to temporarily fix the problem by either logging out and back in or by relaunching the Finder.

But it has eventually changed back.