Greatest disaster that ever struck my computer

[coolio2654]

Well, not to most guys reading this.
Long story short. Over at least 2.5 years I've been arranging hundreds of documents all on my desktop folder by just throwing pics from the net and such in a designated pile for the specific file type (bottom left corner of screen would be for deviantart authors for example). This was done in the hopes that one day, if I had enough time, I would arrange all the pics in some order, but as time went along I kinda started liking the messy look of my desktop.

For the first time today I've used facebook and uploaded a lot of pictures from my desktop and folders inside my desktop. After I exited Safari, I saw all my elaborate piles of files arranged like if someone went and pressed the
"Clean up" option by right-clicking the desktop! I started putting everything back in its place as you can see in my uploaded picture. This had to be facebook's fault and I know I didn't do anything else that could've done it.

So, can someone tell me if Leopard somehow caches the arrangement of the files so yo can revert back to them some time in the future? After I saw it for the first time, I quit finder from the "Force Quit Applications" window because it sometimes helps if the comp messes up the order but it didn't. And also, how can I stop facebook from cleaning up my folders when I mess around with my album?
Plz help, I might encounter my mid-life crisis early if no help arrives

 

[djackmac]

That's waaaay too messy of a desktop and I've seen several customers that have had issues due to their desktop being too incredibly messy. It has nothing to do with facebook arranging your files. You are literally choking your machine with all of that crap and asking for issues. If you took all of thoe icons and stuffed them into one folder on your desktop you would likely see a noticeable performance increase.

 

[earthsaver]

As to your first question, arrangement info is stored in the invisible .DS_Store file in each folder. If you show invisible files and restore a backup of that file for your Desktop folder, you might be able to restore the arrangement.

That said, I agree that you're asking for trouble by storing so many items on your desktop. Much of the slowness is because your system has to constantly redraw more detail on the screen than if there were fewer items.

 

[Doctor X]

Maybe you got a virus?







Hello? Is this mic on?

--J.D.

P.S. Have to agree with the above. I like a Desktop with "stuff" being a Luddite and all--I like to click on things and not find this strange Dock that the kids talk about--but you have created a mess your computer has to keep up.

--J.D.

 

[chevy]

very simple solution: ceate 2-3 folders on your desktop and place them where you used to drop files. Then dorp files in the folder. You're done and your desktop is saved.

For a cleaner process, create the folders in your Documents folder and put aliases to these folders on your desktop. Same usage, but this puts your files where the system expect these.

 

[earthsaver]

Or, skip the clicking, put everything in your Documents folder, and use Spotlight (upper right magnifier) to find and open everything.