Since this was a Desktop issue, on Reboot I presume the OS would recognize and rebuild anything on the Desktop into the "".Įric, thank you again for your suggestions in helping me reslove this issue. Fortunately, Windows 11 lets you move taskbar icons to the left edge through a native option in the Settings app. I really don't know but would like to know the correct logic to this resolution.įYI, for troubleshooting, I prefer to put suspected corrupt documents, files, applications in the "Trash" or copy to an external drive.in this way on a "Reboot" the OS will NOT acknowledge its existence in the system. How do I move the icons to the left psycoswimmer macrumors 65816 1,302 1 USA 2 You click and drag them to the left of the screen. My guess, maybe from Zapping the RAM (clearing logic board instructions, etc.), and the absence of a corrupt "", the OS rebuilt this document from a BOOT-up shell script (from a blank slate) ? If you want the icons to be automatically arranged, click Auto Arrange. Method 3: Uncheck Allow Themes to Change Desktop Icons. Then, if your desktop icons is still rearranged after rebooting. Step 3: Next, select Small icons in the View option and you would immediately see the changes in the icon on the desktop. and was able to move icons that I only occasionally used into the Control Center and out of the way. For example, you should select the Medium icons again.
Click the command that indicates how you want to arrange the icons (by Name, by Type, and so on). How to Customize Your Mac Desktop Using Control Center and Widgets. Why did the this scenario: "" into put-back in "Preference" folder.Reboot work ? To arrange icons by name, type, date, or size, right-click a blank area on the desktop, and then click Arrange Icons. WOW!!!!!.that was interesting!!!.it seems to have corrected the issue. Because OS X apps are nothing but bundles of files and folders, we can accomplish this trick by simply renaming the folder with a. The generic-icon documents I left on the Desktop displayed their correct icon!!!! To move this folder to the left side of the Dock, we need to trick OS X into thinking that this folder is actually an application. So, decided to go back to the original (equation) and moved ".plists" from the "Trash" back into "Preference" folder,Īgain, restarted computer, Zapped-RAM a few times. In the example below, were opening Safari. If you dont see the one you want, click the Spotlight icon in the top-right corner of the screen, then type the name of the application on your keyboard to search for it. Tested by moving ".pdf" and ".rtf" documents to Desktop, To open an application on a Mac, click the applications icon on the Dock.
Restarted computer, Zapped-RAM a few times, After my last reply, I put both ".plists" in trash but left the "ist" in "Preference" folder,