every time I run pop-pop the icons on my desktop move a bit more to the up left corner. can't i avoid that? i have a lot of icons and right now my desktop is a blur....
(i use a g4 800 with 1024x768, and small icons)
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Search this board for another topic like this one; I gave a link to a VERY nice utility called Desktop Icon Manager which can help with that.
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If you're using OS 9, I have this script that I made for when I boot through the CD and it messes with my icons. It allows you to set the current icon positions, or restore. It doesn't error if the file it tries to move doesn't exist anymore. Just paste it into the Script Editor and save it as a run only applet, it stores all the preferences in the script itself, so make sure that you keep it and don't distribute it. Arrange the icons the way you like and then open the script and Set icon positions. If an app messes with your icons, then open the script again and restore the positions. Very handy.
property theNames : {}
property thePositions : {}on run
set theDialog to button returned of (display dialog "This is a script meant to restore the positions of all of your icons on the desktop." & return & return & "Would you like to restore the positions of all your current icons or would you like to make my settings for the positions, that of the current icons on the desktop?" buttons {"Cancel", "Update Settings", "Restore Positions"} default button 3)if theDialog is not "Cancel" then
tell application "Finder"
if theDialog is "Restore Positions" then
repeat with i from 1 to length of theNames
try
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Originally posted by EVula:
**Search this board for another topic like this one; I gave a link to a VERY nice utility called Desktop Icon Manager which can help with that.**
For osx....? I've been searching endlessly for an app that did for osx what Desktop Resetter did for macos9....
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It's an AppleScript 'program', so I'm not sure. I would think that it would.
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Originally posted by EVula:
It's an AppleScript 'program', so I'm not sure. I would think that it would.Unfortunately you can't programmatically set the position of icons in Mac OS X :frown: I believe this is due to the fact that you can have any icon size you want as opposed to just 16x16 and 32x32 but that's just a guess. I found this out when I was trying to alleviate the "Mac OS X moves my icons around" problem.