Re: The Desktop
- From: Dave Balderstone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:44:25 -0600
In article <1fn423tlfkrss6ms2bshkbb6fj4v3rgnts@xxxxxxx>, Howard Brazee
<howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My wife's desktop is filling up. This is our first Mac, and we hate
desktops full of icons.
A lot of these are .dmg files she can delete. Some of them are less
obvious.
She uses MSN Messenger, as it had all of her old contacts. I just
installed Adium and guessed correct about her MSN password (I wonder
how many people have multiple accounts as they forget earlier
passwords). When I ran it, it logged her off MSN messenger, which
still had a triangle under it saying it was running. I'd like her
to try Adium, but she may decide she wants her more familiar app
(except now that she has a camera in her computer, she'd like to find
out how to use it).
Then I tried dismounting MSN messenger's drive on the desktop - but it
wouldn't dismount because it was being used. I found the original -
her logon folder had the Mac Drive, the MSN drive, and the Network. I
don't want to get rid of anything needed, but I want to clear icons
off of the desktop.
I'm way to ignorant to start deleting stuff (although it's easy to
pull things out of the trash).
Just create a fold on the desktop and pt everything in there.
There is a problem with filling up the Desktop in OS X. Because of how
the folder is handled by the OS, each icon counts as an open window.
Also, I've had several Macs at work refuse to boot into the Finder
because *something* on the desktop gets florfed. In all cases, moving
the desktop icons to a separate folder has solved the problem.
--
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher
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