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In Snow Leopard I used to make my folders simply snap to grid and I used to arrange them into an order that suited me.
In Lion when I do this, be it on the desktop, downloads folder or simply my user home, after a few times of accessing, the folders move randomly or get sorted by lion.
Any ideas why this is happeneing and how I can stop it from happening?
27, Mac OS X (10.7), 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD
well I'm going to have to eat my own words and a huge heaping pile of them at that .... it actually appears to be fixed after all on my machine ... I was comparing 2 different folders entirely ... in other words a very lazy mistake on my part ... time to own up and recieve my public flogging😢
Let's not break out the chanpaign quite yet.
10.7.2 does indeed appear to remember all my folder view option settings (position, background color, etc.)
BUT
In Mail/Attach file, when I use column mode to search for a file and then return to the Finder, my folder appears in colum mode.
I click icon mode and all is well.
Minor annoyance, true, but it means that the bug is not totally erradicated.
Janet
Total disaster for me. At first I saw that icons were staying where they should be, but now I find that whenever I save a file from any app, the app crashes, then the finder crashes, and I have to restart. Well done Apple, you have rendered my computer inoperable, and I need to earn a living by using it. Help - what can I do?
Dackman, could you be moe specific describing your problem.
I'm having no difficulty opening/saving/moving files.
Check out the Console log -- maybe there's an error message that will explain the problem.
Sorry - I don't want to hijack this thread into a different topic. I don't really understand the console log, but there are a ton of 'sandboxd' errors in there:
13/10/2011 11:57:33.201 sandboxd: ([509]) WebProcess(509) deny mach-lookup ATS Query Port 365
and some of these
13/10/2011 11:58:02.000 kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Should I start a new topic with this, and leave this one to the moving icons?
Yes, this sounds like an entirely different problem -- I'd guess some combination of disk curruption and/or an old utilitiy that can't handle the upgrade.
Good luck finding the problem!
[as a first step, you might run Disk Utility/Repair permissions]
Janet
Until now, my desktop has been unaffected by the problem. Just folder icons were scrambled. I just installed 10.7.2, and now all my desktop icons are scrambled.
Yes, I think you're right. On the plus side, despite all my forced restarts my icons are all still in the right place!
So is the general consensus that it has been resolved? Ive rolled back to SL and dont want to reinstall if theres still a chance the folders wont stay put?
My desktop icon problem (decribed on page 7) still persists in 10.7.2.
If I have an icon on the desktop closer than about 100 pixels to the left border, the icons sometimes gets scrambled after restart. After finding this problem in 10.7.1 all icons on the desktop has stayed put, until I tried to move one today...
If I use the shortcut command-J in the finder and try to adjust the icon size, all icons closer than about 100pixels to the left border jumps to the right and wont come back. It doesn't matter if I reduce the size or increase it. These icons still end up on the right side.
All the other icons stay put. -Not like a restart, when all positions gets scrambled.
Mac OS X 10.7.2 seems to have solved my problems. The Finder remembers icon positions correctly and Mail remembers account settings correctly. Knock on wood.
Same here, 10.7.2 corrected the problem. I originally wrote on page 3 of this post. Now my folders are were I left them, and the icons (I use icon view) stay were I left them. Even if I use "save as" in programs everything stays as should. Phew.
10.7.2 seems to have solved it for me.
I've been trying to reproduce the problem for a couple days now since updating and so far my home folder icons are still nicely arranged where I left them. prior to 10.7.1 I could trigger the problem almost every time I saved an attachment in Mail. but not under 10.7.2
According to MacFixit's article "OSX 10.7.2: What if fixed and what it didn't"
the problem with Finder Icon Arrangement "...appears to have been addressed".
Fingers crossed...
On this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3364108?tstart=120
"ellegant" posts an account working out with Tech Support a solution that may explain some or all of this issue, or at least why only some of us experienced it, or why 10.7.2 did not help some people: permission problems. The fix: make sure everything on the HD is properly owned and privileged.
It stands to reason that view options of a folder you set while it is open won't be preserved if permissions to write .DS_Store at the time you close the folder are insufficient. It never occurred me to check that. (D'oh!) I more or less consciously assumed that .DS_Store was owned by the System and could always be written by whatever process needed to do that housekeeping. As I observe on my correctly working view-options-saving 10.7.2 system, I own .DS_Store files --at least in the folders I checked-- and Finder is running as a process under my user name, so ... everything is cool. In the process of transferring from an older machine to a new one running 10.7, or installing 10.7 over 10.6.x, permissions and ownership might get scrambled.
HTH
Lion Keeps Re-arranging my Folders
