MacBook :: Icons Showing Up In Finder And On Desktop?

Mar 7, 2010

The icons just started showing up this way today, any ideas as to why would be great and any fixes w

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OS X :: Unable To Delete Icons / Application Showing Icons On Desktop

Oct 24, 2009

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

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MacBook Pro :: Desktop Icons Not Showing Arranged On Screen

Jun 13, 2012

Recently I've been having a problem with the way my icons are arranged. It's like the screen its moved a little bit up. There's an image to show you how it looks like when it happens (because it happens sometimes, I dunno what I causes). Also, when my mac enter sleeping mode, the login screen its moved a little bit up too.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Jun 1, 2012

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), iOS 5.0.1, Lose of songs

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OS X :: File Icons Not Showing Up In Finder...

Feb 14, 2010

This started happening a few days ago...I thought my Hard drive was dying or something, but disk utility says its fine.

Here is a screenshot of my utilities folder to show what I mean...anyone know whats up?

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MacBook Pro :: USB Icon Isn't Showing Up On Desktop Or Finder?

May 30, 2012

I am trying to get pictures off an SD card that I have in a card reader, plugged into the USB port.  I'm not finding an icon for this anywhere!  I've tried 2 card readers, as well as plugging my camera right into the USB port, and none of them show up!  It was working just find 2 days ago, and now it's not.  The USB port shows up in System Profiler, but not in Disk Utility. 

Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Terminal Showing Up On Desktop With Other Icons

Apr 29, 2012

What "Terminal" is and why it's now showing up on my desktop with other icons?

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Power Mac :: Desktop Icons Ghosted And Showing Transparent

May 8, 2012

Yesterday I accidentally opened Terminal and didn't realize it until after I typed into it and hit a few returns. I thought nothing of it until today. When I started up all of the desktop icons were ghosted or transparent. The Dock apps look fine, and everything seems to work OK. There are odd .DS_Store files everywhere and other files that start with a dot that I've heard are supposed to be invisible.

I've looked around and found out that it's a Finder problem that can be corrected by typing something into Terminal. That's how I realized I must have messed it up yesterday when I accidentally typed into the Terminal. What code I need to enter into Terminal to restore it to the default settings. I have a Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5 with OS 10.4.11, and other than this problem it works great.

Info:
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: View Only The Desktop With Icons And The Finder?

Mar 14, 2012

I have a hot corner set up to show the desktop.. in Snow Leopard when I exposed the desktop and then clicked on the finder in the dock *just* the finder would show. 

Now, with Lion, when I click on the finder it comes into view but all the other open applications come sweeping back in hiding the desktop. 

Can I change this back to the way it was before? Or is there another sneaky quick way to show only the desktop and the finder? Set up an entirely different "desktop" in mission control dedicated only to having nothing open in it? 

In short: I need a fast way to drag icons from the desktop into folders in the finder. Also, this is driving me nuts. 

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Finder Won't Open All Desktop Icons Are Gone?

Apr 11, 2012

I upgraded to Lion a few weeks ago and now the FINDER will not open and all of my desk top icons are gone. I've been reading different posts, but everyone says something different. Snow Leopard was working great.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: No Icons For Hard Drive In Finder / Desktop?

Jul 5, 2012

I'm new to 10.7. Finder/desktop do not have icons for my hard drives. How do I find them and navigate the structure to find things and troubleshoot?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Icons From Desktop Disappeared And Finder Keeps Crashing Every 2-3 Seconds

Feb 6, 2012

Last night all my desktop icons just disappeared all of a sudden, I restarted my laptop and they came back but when I try to click and drag anything on my desktop or copy something between finder windows, they just disappear again and Finder crashes.  I downloaded the newest update and installed it, which didn't fix the problem so I found a similar problem on another forum and tried doing what they recommended (which was to delete the Cache folder and some files from the library and restart the computer)  After I restarted, finder started crashing every 2-3 seconds and giving me a message saying that Finder quit unexpectadly while trying to restore it's windows. 

I have a late 2008 unibody MacBook, 4GB RAM, 1TB HD, 2GHz dual core processor.

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Alum MacBook (2008), iPod nano 8gb, iPhone2G/3G/3Gs, iPod touch,500GB TC

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Software :: Finder Freezes - Can't Select Any Desktop Icons / Dock Apps

Jun 2, 2009

Every so often the Finder just freezes: can't select any desktop icons or dock apps. Relaunching Finder always fixes it, but it is annoying. I have repaired permissions, cleared caches, no dice, still happens.

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Mac Pro :: Internal Drives Not Showing Up On Desktop / Can Access Them In Finder

Nov 2, 2009

So I just received my Nehalem Mac Pro today, and I successfully installed three new hard drives in it, and I can access all four of my drives in Finder, but NONE of them (including the Boot Drive that came with the computer) are showing up on the desktop! I can't figure out why so I thought I'd ask here.

Oddly enough, my Firewire 800 Drive shows up on the desktop. Anyone have any ideas why this would happen? And how to fix it?

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MacBook Pro :: Desktop Icons Disappeared - Can't Drag-and-drop Anything (at All) To The Desktop

Jun 6, 2012

They're still accessible through finder, but now I can't drag-and-drop anything (at all) to the desktop. It was fine a minute ago before I shut down and rebooted my laptop. Restarts and switching users does nothing. I'm using Mac OSX Lion 10.7.4.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Finder Sidebar Document Icons Change To Folder Icons?

Mar 20, 2012

I place document icons in my finder sidebar, and sometime later they change to folder icons. Does not matter which application they come from, it seems to happen to them all, but they are still linked to the correct documents.

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Software :: Desktop Doesn't Show Any Icons - How To Get Back Icons

Sep 29, 2008

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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OS X :: No Icons/no Desktop On Imac - How To Get Back Icons

Dec 15, 2008

Powered up my Imac today..goes through the usual gyrations get to a blue background but no icons present..not locked just no icons and cannot pull down any menus..

ran disk utility off off OSX cd..it fixed some block count on a .pub file but still get same thing after restart..

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OS X :: No Desktop Icons - How To Put Icons Back On Desktop

Feb 20, 2008

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 :: Not Showing Icons For Installed Apps - Fixing It?

Oct 16, 2010

This is likely a Snow Leopard issue, but since it's happening on my Macbook....

Icons are (mostly) not displaying. In Finder my /Applications folder is ok, but anything new I install into it will have a name but no icon. In /Applications/Utilities no icons are showing My dock is ok, so far at least. On my Desktop (my default folder for downloads) anything downloaded will have a name but no icon. When installing a new program no icon for the app displays, just the name.

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MacBook Pro :: Mission Control Showing Icons Instead Of Screenshots

Apr 28, 2012

With the Mission Control Application, initially when I clicked on it it would show me the screenshots of everything I had open. Recently it's been showing me the little icons of what I've got open. How do I stop this and make it go back to showing the screenshots?

Info:
MacBook Pro

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OS X :: Desktop Icons Disappeared / Unable To Do Right Click On Desktop?

Jul 23, 2007

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.

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MacBook Pro :: How To Restore Deleted Icons In Finder

Dec 17, 2009

I accidentally dragged the icon in the Finder Window for my Macintosh HD hard drive out of the window so it deleted. How can I get that back in Finder, or restore it so it returns?

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MacBook :: No Icons, Just A Picture Of The Desktop - How To Fix It

Jan 5, 2011

So i dropped my macbook last week and turned it on and the screen is just grey, so i bought an external monitor and hooked it up and everything works fine except when i turn it on all I see is my desktop picture, no icons or anything. What could be the problem and is there a way to fix it?

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MacBook Pro :: Setup Icons On Desktop?

Jun 6, 2012

I have struggled to set up icons for the sites I use frequently.  I would like to arrange these icons on my desktop so that just by clicking on them I can get to the link. 

Info:
iOS 5.1

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MacBook Pro :: All Icons From My Desktop Have Disappeared

Jul 1, 2012

I turned my mac on today to find that all the desktop items have either disappeared or are taking a very long time to load if they are there. I have tried turning my computer off and on by pressing the power off button due to being unable to turn it off or restart via the button on the desktop. It is also running really slow but it will load safari and itunes just slowly! what can i do to fix it as I have uni work on there and photos of my family that I will not be able to get back if they are lost.

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OS X :: DS_Store Showing Up On Desktop / Unable To Remove From Desktop

Jul 5, 2006

what is the .DS_Store file that is on my desktop and in many of my folders? can i move it, i have tried dragging it to a different folder, but it just pops up again, and it makes my desktop look all untidy!

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MacBook Pro :: How To Change The Trash And Finder Icons In The Dock?

Dec 1, 2010

anyone know how to change the trash and finder icons in the dock without using any program like candybar

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MacBook Pro :: Icons On Finder Sidebar Gone And Preferences Not Returning Them?

Mar 15, 2012

I opened a new Finder window to find out that all the icons in the sidebar are gone, and going to finder --> preferences doesn't help. They're still ticked, but don't show up. I tried unticking them all, closing preferences, then opening preferences and ticking them again. No luck. I tried restarting the computer, no luck. I've heard that dragging the file com.apple.finder.plist onto the desktop and restarting helps, but I can't find it. It's not in Library/Preferences and a search doesn't show it. I can see a veriety of other com.apple.----- files but not the finder one. 

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Just upgraded

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MacBook Pro :: DVD Drive Not Showing Up In Finder?

Jan 14, 2010

Drive still accepts and ejects discs as usual. Problem happens with all kinds of discs, CDs and DVDs.

I even tried replacing the drive with a brand new one, still nothing showing in finder.

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