While in utilities/activities monitor I accidentally clicked on and then quit "launcher" program whatever that is...lost all desktop icons...how do I recover?
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Just downloaded Lion 10.7.3, and the icons kept on desktop are lost in upper right hand corner. Nothing with desktop pref helps. What else should I try?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
how to remove Icons from the Desktop, the ones that are attached at the bottom of the screen?
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iMac, iOS 5.1
I lost my e-mail from my desk top. the mailbox>rebuild option is not active.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I am unable to remove the following icons from my desktop; Keys, iChat, Console, Activity Monitor. Looking for an explanation as to why this can not be done by dragging and dropping on the desktop.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I clipped a few lines out of my system log; dropped 'em on a desktop. Now they appear on every desktop. What gives? Why don't they stick to only the desktop I dropped them on?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
following the proper directions with get info etc. icons from websites will not change on imac desktop with downloaded icons with either png or jpg extensions
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iMac 2011, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
I want to add the icon for my Mac to the desktop, but don't know how to do so. Also, the ICal icon appears both on my desktop and in the dock. When I try to remove it from the desktop, it also disappears from the dock, which I don't want to do. How can I do this addition and subtraction?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5)
My desktop icons are aligning top to bottom right to left, instead of left to right.Â
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Why am I unable to move icons around on desktop? How do I release these?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Some of my desktop icons "disappear" intermittently ( not always the same icon(s)). still appears but the icon is blank. I can still click on the blank spot and the app will launch.
Oh and my personal "Avatar" photo also reverts to an earlier choice ( intermittently ) as well. Can change it to the one I want to use but it reverts back to the old picture also from time to time ...
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27"
I'm a new Mac-user having used PC:s for 25 years. On my Windows Desktop it was easy to place new icons with shortcuts to websites I often visit. I have tried to do this on my Mac, creating Bookmarks, exporting them to Desktop. Iicons appear. But when clicked they don't connect with the webaddresses I have given.
I have read Q&A from someone who tried to give similar shortcuts to customers, but I did not understand the answers. I'm Swedish and Mac Keyboard and Desktop menues etc are in Swedish so the exact terms in English may be difficult to translate. My problem is different since it's only on my Mac I need the shortcuts/icons/links.
I learned how to put icons with website links on my Desktop. Those icons are all the same (except for the names I have given them) and look boring. How do I ,put for example ,a photo of my daughter, whose blog I want to visit, on the icon?Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
On my desktop the little disk image icons are coming up when i open certain applications. I wanna make them disappear, but still be able to see ipods, cds, and external drives.
Also(somewhat irrelevant), occasionally when i open firefox, it asks me to drag it in the applications folder, but it's already there. please help. its so annooying
i am a tad stumped by this issue i'm having right now with my new imac. i noticed one day that none of my desktop aliases show any longer. in fact if i go to the desktop folder through finder my files and such show in there however none of my aliases nor those files show on the actual desktop. another thing i've noticed is that whenever i now try to drag and drop anything to the desktop whether it be a URL from safari or an alias i made in finder the dragged item simply just drags itself back to where i pulled it from.
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Okay, I'm having some problems with my Powerbook. Yesterday, I upgraded Firefox. When re-opening after the upgrade, I had a kernel panic. I restarted my computer and figured I would be good to go. Well, after logging back in, I found that Finder was acting up and I no longer had any desktop icons. Now, clicking the Finder icon in the dock will open a new Finder window just fine. If I go to the Desktop from there, all my icons are still there. So, I decided to restart my computer and see if that made a difference.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Anyone come across a problem where all the desktop icons disappear? I also cannot right click on my desktop to bring up a contextual menu, my machine appears to be running faultlessly apart from that. I have run Onyx to reset permissions and have checked the disk but cannot seem to find anything wrong.
Running OSX 10.10 on a quad core 2.66 Mac Pro.
I'm not sure what is going on, but some time ago my Spotlight icon in the menubar disappeared. Now for some reason the Eject icon is on the far right where Spotlight should be. Also the keyboard shortcut is not working. To do a search I have to now go to the finder and hit Command-F. I really miss not having Spotlight
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