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| Keep my desktop neat and tidy Is there any way to keep the Mac from dropping every downloaded file known to man on the desktop? My screen is so cluttered with PDFs, DMGs, GIFS, TIFFS, and sundry other things that I can't find the icons that I need. Thanks Barry |
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The steps are similar for other applications. That is, set the "preferences" to your liking.
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| But be aware of the fact that you'll still accumulate a lot of stuff that later on you won't be sure whether you still need it or not. I actually tend to keep downloads on the Desktop and sort things out once a week at least.
__________________ MacBook Air 13" 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.5 MacBook 13" 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Hackintosh Core2Duo 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.5 iPhone 3G 16 GB (v2.1), AppleTV 1G 40 GB (v2.1) Mac user since 1987, Apple Product Professional 2007, 2008. |
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| You could also create a folder action for the Desktop and filter files by extension and then move them somewhere... |
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| ... and later come here and ask questions about "where do all my files go?!" when you forget about that folder action? ![]()
__________________ MacBook Air 13" 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.5 MacBook 13" 1.83 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.5 Hackintosh Core2Duo 2.4 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB HD. Mac OS X 10.5.5 iPhone 3G 16 GB (v2.1), AppleTV 1G 40 GB (v2.1) Mac user since 1987, Apple Product Professional 2007, 2008. |
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| Go to your home folder, right-click (or control-click) on the folder. Select "Attach a Folder Action" from the pop-up menu, and explore the Applescripts available. You could, of course, learn Applescript and create your own. Doug
__________________ "Just as some newborn race of superintelligent robots are about to consume all humanity, our dear old species will likely be saved by a Windows crash. The poor robots will linger pathetically, begging us to reboot them, even though they'll know it would do no good." -Anonymous |
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| I have a similar problem You can probably guess that I'm not too savvy here. I have my downloads sent to a folder on my desktop, handy for cleaning up. however, there are some things that I cannot remove from my desktop, they are labelled volumes in the 'get info' box. they are all .dmg . I can't throw them out, I can't move them, or hide them or anything. they are programs like messenger or firefox. what am I doing wrong here? Thanks -M |
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