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garytoriello Author

Level 1

5 points

osx lion - desktop icons rearranged on right of screen after reboot

Since upgrading to OSC Lion...

Every few reboots me desktop icons end up all alligned in columns along the right side of the screen.

I rearrange them the way I want them. For a few reboots they are fine.

Then bam, on the next reboot they are all aligned on the right side of the screen again.

I thoght this was a bug that might have been fixed in 10.7.1, but no, it just happened again.

Any ideas how to get my icons to stay put?

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 18, 2011 10:01 AM

50 replies

Jul 23, 2012 5:48 AM in response to garytoriello

I'm having this issue as well with 2012 macbook air with latest release of lion. Just did a restart this morning because my bluetooth mouse fails to connect about once every 3 days. Now my desktop icons are all messed up. ugh...

Willo

Level 1

70 points

Jul 30, 2012 6:15 PM in response to Marcus Ray

I'm still having this isssue too! Judging by the threads, it's been going on for years. Sigh.

Jul 30, 2012 10:23 PM in response to garytoriello

I've had this problem a couple of year, while always running the latest OS X version.

After installing Mountain Lion the problem seems to have disappeared! At least for me. It's only been three days, but it looks good.

Sorry for off topic, but I have to write this somewhere. Mountain Lion is an awesome upgrade. Not so much for the new stuff (Notifications is Growl Light), but for the speed and over all feel. I even finally switched back to Safari from Chrome. This goes both for my mid 2009 Mac Book Pro and mid 2010 iMac 27" i7.

Aug 2, 2012 10:44 AM in response to garytoriello

I finally wrote a script that will put my favorite folders in place after my iMac thinks its places better. I keep a messy desktop [you might say I'm a desktop horder], a result of too many things to do and not enought time. I click it and bingo, each of the folders comes out of the forest of icons and lines up obediently in a row at the top - left of the screen. Lion doesn't think that's a good place, so I know sometime, any time, they'll be back re-embedded in the pack, and I'll put them back, with a smug look on my face.

Rob

Nov 8, 2012 6:41 AM in response to garytoriello

This is just ridiculous! Come on Apple...

osx lion - desktop icons rearranged on right of screen after reboot