Hard Disk icon

[tryder]

Hi...When I start up my Mac mini (with OSX3.9), the Mac HD icon always comes up toward the middle of the Desktop on my screen. I want to place it PERMANENTLY in the far upper right corner of my screen. Do you know how to do that? (I can manually move it to the upper right corner, but when I power on again, it's right back in the middle of the screen.) Thanks for any help you can give!

 

[DeltaMac]

Hi...When I start up my Mac mini (with OSX3.9), the Mac HD icon always comes up toward the middle of the Desktop on my screen. I want to place it PERMANENTLY in the far upper right corner of my screen. Do you know how to do that? (I can manually move it to the upper right corner, but when I power on again, it's right back in the middle of the screen.) Thanks for any help you can give!

The hard drive icon cannot appear in that top right corner if there is not enough space in that area. Clean up your desktop. If you clear an area free of icons, files, etc. from that top right corner, your hard drive icon will naturally return to that corner on a restart. You'll have to experiment a little, to find out how much free space you need to leave.
Just as a hint, I no longer have my hard drive appear on the desktop at all. I can always open a window and click on the hard drive from the sidebar if I need access to the hard drive (which is every few weeks or so.) I keep all my needed folders in the sidebar. Just my way of working on a Mac.

 

[powermac]

My is on the desktop, and I immediately change the icon from the ugly Hard Drive one to the smiling finder face.

 

[cbotnyc]

To Tryder...if you have plenty of space on your desktop and the HD icon still moves to the middle of the screen then you need to trash the .DS_Store file and the .localized from your Desktop. Use something like cocktail to show these files as there are invisible. Trash the files move your HD icon to the upper right and relaunch the finder or restart.

 

[dmetzcher]

To Tryder...if you have plenty of space on your desktop and the HD icon still moves to the middle of the screen then you need to trash the .DS_Store file and the .localized from your Desktop. Use something like cocktail to show these files as there are invisible. Trash the files move your HD icon to the upper right and relaunch the finder or restart.

Just as an FYI, you don't have to use Cocktail (or any third-party application) to show or hide hidden files and folders. Use this script. Open script editor and enter this into a blank script, then run it. It will display a dialog asking what you would like to do (show or hide). You can also save this script and have it appear in your Script Menu for easy access later.

display dialog "Hidden files and folders..." buttons {"Cancel", "Show", "Hide"} default button 1 with icon caution
if button returned of result = "Show" then
	tell application "Terminal"
		do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
		killall Finder"
		quit
	end tell
else if button returned of result = "Hide" then
	tell application "Terminal"
		do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
		killall Finder"
		quit
	end tell
end if

If you want something that you can just type into the Terminal application, use one of these.

To show all hidden files:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder

To hide all hiddle files:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder

Note that there are two lines you need to type, the one that starts with "defaults", followed by the Return key, and then the one that starts with "killall", followed again by the Return key.

 

[tryder]

Re my HD icon: Thanks DeltaMac for your reply! I had bunched a number of files folders in the upper right corner. After moving many of them to make space and restarting, my HD icon now appears permanently in the RH corner! And thanks everyone else for replying to my problem!