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Lewis Kopp Author

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Mac is moving my drives icons on the desktop when I put it to sleep

I have my disk drives (all SSDs) arranged in the upper right corner of my desktop on my M2 Mac mini running Ventura 13.4.1. If I put the Mac to sleep using the Sleep option in the Apple Menu and wait 30 seconds or so and wake it back up, the icons have been drastically moved around.

Here's a picture of the corner of the desktop before putting the Mac to sleep:

And here's what it looks like after I put the Mac to sleep and wait 30 seconds or so before tapping the shift key to wake it up:

What the heck is going on? It has been doing this for a while and it is driving me even more crazy than I normally am!

LewK

Mac mini, macOS 13.4

Posted on Jun 26, 2023 3:28 PM

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Syncopator

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157 points

Posted on Nov 24, 2023 8:08 PM

I'm having this issue on a brand-new Mac Studio running Ventura. So, it's not a Sonoma issue, as one commenter mentioned. It's also not related to Migration Assistant, because I did a completely clean install on this machine and did NOT migrate. I always use Snap to Grid, so for those who were using a different Finder setting, changing it *to* Snap to Grid likely won't fix it.

Just a month ago, this Mac Studio replaced a 2020 iMac that was also running Ventura, and this issue did not appear until I started using the Mac Studio. I also have a 2023 MacBook Pro, running Sonoma, that does NOT display this issue.

So, there appears to be no particular rhyme or reason—except in my case, out of three Macs, it's only happening on the Mac Studio.

To the commenter who disabled the display of external drives, it's fantastic that that works for you. But I have 5 drives, and I need to be able to see—at a glance—that they have all properly mounted. We all work differently of course.

For certain users, the keyboard shortcuts for sorting might work. They can be found in Finder > View > Sort By. (No, it shouldn't be necessary to hit a shortcut, but as a workaround until this is fixed, it's available.) Unfortunately neither of those works for me as any of the available options would change the desired order of my icons. But your needs may be different.

Apple really needs to fix this.

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