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Quickly reveal obscured desktop icons

#1 Macworld

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Posted 06 January 2009 - 08:00 AM

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#2 millca

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Posted 06 January 2009 - 08:15 AM

Great tip! The link is broken.

#3 spim

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Posted 06 January 2009 - 08:41 AM

oh my .. using my Macs all these years
I never tried that Menu command before .. and it would have helped when I had this very issue
thanks for the tip!

#4 medelegant

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Posted 06 January 2009 - 08:46 AM

I just tried moving my dock to the right side and all the icons did automatically move aside.
Returning the dock to the bottom of the screen automatically moved the icons closer to the edge again.
I expect that the automatic repositioning occurs because my view options for the desktop is to keep items arranged by kind. (under "View" -> Show View Options"

#5 Strawtag

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Posted 06 January 2009 - 08:55 AM

Have you ever seen Desktop Wrap? It still works, and can really help keep your desktop organized. It can place your icons and sort them, and it can even let you set a custom arrangement if you like to keep a certain group of icons on your desktop. It can save your arrangement to an Applescript that you can trigger with a keystroke if you have Spark or Proxi or something, or just keep it in the dock so desktop icon cleanup is just a click away.
http://lonestar.utsa...esktopwrap.html