Desktop icons rearrange themselves after restart

I got a possible solution, lets nuke everything deep in the system and perhaps this wll catch the little gremlin!

Download the free OnyX for your OS X version here:

http://www.titanium.free.fr/index.php

Now run all the maintence, cleaning and that sort of stuff you can find.

You can cancel the reboot to do another cleaning etc., but you must reboot at the end.

Once rebooted, see how that works.

Edit: did you Finder > View > View Options > Arange By "none"??

Most likely a mucked up .DS_Store file in the Desktop folder. Do a search for .DS_Store AND baltwo in these communities and see my previous suggested solutions.

FWIW, I never use Onyx or Cocktail, preferring to use the Terminal commands, which those apparently use.😉

baltwo wrote:

Most likely a mucked up .DS_Store file in the Desktop folder. Do a search for .DS_Store AND baltwo in these communities and see my previous suggested solutions.

Yea, OnyX will take care of that, if the OP enables all the options.

No need to backup, OnyX doesn't hurt the data on the machine, just cleans things out so OS X can rebuild them..

Oh what fun, I can boot Linux "PartedMagic" cd on my Mac, and i almost gave this 15" MBP away for a song, going to be my new Linux box now. 🙂

This PartedMagic is great, it loads entirely into RAM and spits out the cd so you can use the drive. Loaded with great software to recover files, undelete, edit things, repair the disk structure, poke around in EFI partition...Linux is so much fun. 🙂

I feel like a kid in a candy store.

baltwo wrote:

FWIW, I never use Onyx or Cocktail, preferring to use the Terminal commands, which those apparently use.😉

I think the GUI of OnyX will beat your typing skills though as multiple options can be enabled at once. 🙂

May be, but unless its options explicitly reveal what they're doing or using, I'm not too hot for using it. BTW, can it select individual .DS_Store files or does it only do them globally? rm ~/Desktop/.DS_Store, followed by killall Finder, is fairly quick and very selective.😉

That happens quite frequently, and it's caused by different-resolution displays

It's quite safe to assume that if you don't change configuration (don't open the laptop, thus setting the main display to built-in) everything keeps working fine...

baltwo wrote:

May be, but unless its options explicitly reveal what they're doing or using, I'm not too hot for using it. BTW, can it select individual .DS_Store files or does it only do them globally? rm ~/Desktop/.DS_Store, followed by killall Finder, is fairly quick and very selective.😉

You got someone not afraid of the Terminal, remember that. 🙂

OnyX also performs a lot of other functions that someone might find useful in the future.

Well back to my: sudo rm -rf / 😉

Skills Design wrote:

Hey ds store 🙂

I was about to try OnyX, but tried Terminal and it worked.

Thank you for your help!

Thank you for the info about OnyX 🙂

Your welcome, glad to help. Two approaches, same goal, a safe GUI one and a faster (and possibly risky) Terminal one.

Now you have both, award points accordingly! We feed on points (gets us free T-Shirts 😉)

onyx is not that safe in my experience, that's why I never recommend it to customers.

BTW, I wonder if Skills Design ever disconnected the external display during those recent "manipulations", I'd like to know if the problem persists (and if I'm right about the resolution issue)

PS. Skills Design: as stated by ds store, you might consider marking useful and correct answers to show your appreciation...

Hurry, I'm joanzing....must feed...poi--ints.... 😮

ahhhhhh.....thank you..... 😀