Re: [9.2.2] Strange desktop icon behavior

Eric P. <ericp06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hylton Boothroyd wrote:
Eric P. wrote:
Each HD partition icon--both internal
and FireWire external--have a patch of gray behind them.

The most likely possibility is that each icon is set in a neat square
surround of gray. In which case it is not an icon: it's a button.

I know what you're referring to. That's not the case here, as the gray
areas appear above the drive/partition icons, but not below, and some of
them have a notch in the top. It has the look of a piece of the desktop
background picture having been torn out, revealing a dotty gray
background pattern.

The only time I get a damaged-looking desktop picture is if I load a lot
of applications, and one of them continues to claim more and more memory
as it runs -- memory leakage. I have one such application that I use
every day. I also like to have open all the applications I'm likely to
use. When the largest unused block of memory gets down to about 2Mb a
freeze is possible at any moment and the re-painting of the screen is
incomplete.

Your description doesn't sound like that, but you might find it of
interest to open the
Finder > About This Computer
panel, and to keep it in view so that you can see whether you are having
unexpected memory problems.

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Hylton
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