Change position of hard drive icon?

Is there any way to change the position of my hard drive icon? It currently sits in the right top corner of my screen but I'd like to move it down a bit. But each time I move it and put the computer to sleep, when it wakes up it's right back where it was before.

In the Finder, go to the View Menu, and click on Show View Options (Cmd-J). Uncheck the "Snap to grid" item. Then you should be able to re-arrange to your heart's content.

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    And I've tried doing a permissions repair in Disk Utility.
    400 MHz PowerPC G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

    That's how other people do it, HVlaar; it's the standard procedure. Works fine for me. Are you logged into an admin account? Have you considered that changing your hard drive icon probably isn't an important thing to do anyway?

  • Won't allow me to change my hard drive icon

    Hello anyone! Here's my problem...I've been using Mac since 1985 and this has always been how you did this and now it's not working, has something changed?
    1. Copy icon, picture, photo
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    3. Click on hard drive icon in Get Info window
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    5. Voila!
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    There are a number of possible problems:
    1. If you use Preview to copy the pix you might not have actually gotten the picture onto the Clipboard, so there is nothing to paste. You can check this by either "Show Clipboard" from the Finder's Edit menu, or try pasting first onto a new folder. If it doesn't paste into the folder let us know. It could be that you haven't gotten the desired picture "active" in Preview--if, for instance, it is an icns file you need to select the 128x128 icon and then click in the actual picture part of Preview's window, then copy.
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  • Hard Drive Icon no longer in upper right corner?

    I know this probably sounds silly and trivial but it's annoying to me and I was wondering if there is a fix for it. Last week, my Hard Drive icon, which normally sits at the top right hand corner of my screen shows up on the middle right underneath a couple other icons when I start up. I can then move the icon to the normal position but why did it suddenly change startup positions on my desktop? And how can I fix it so that it automatically shows up in the upper right corner after startup like it used to?

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    Why did the HD icon move from the upper right hand corner? Who knows, but it happens. Don't lose sleep over it.

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    When I changed the internal hard drive I restored my info from my old external hard drive which hadn't been backed up in a month and hence does not have my latest movies...
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    It seems that there are actually two hard drives inside, one in A, and one in B (see photo)! So, if this is the case, I don't have a problem with the two hard drive icons.
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  • Hard drive icon

    The hard drive icon that is displayed in the top right corner of my computer has always displayed Macintosh HD underneath it. However, today when I came home and sat down at my computer it now displays \\b\b\\ underneath it. Anyone know the reason why this may have happened? I've done a reboot of my system and still no changes....any other ideas?
    Message was edited by: ballison1

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  • Gray X on hard drive icon

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  • Hard drive icon displaces

    Hi Everyone,
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    Run it.
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  • Repositioning Hard Drive Icon

    I have a G4 400 running fully updated 10.3.9 that is my primary workstation at work. I work on it all day, then at the end of the day I restart it. This has been my daily routine, Monday thru Friday ever since I got it back in February, 2000.
    This machine has been rock solid, and has never had a single operational problem. But it does one thing that just kind of annoys me. Like I said, I restart it at the end of the day. I do this just to clean things up and log me out. So when I come in in the morning, I am greeted by the login screen. I log in, and my icons appear on my desktop (which I must admit is usually quite cluttered), and invariably, my hard drive icons (I have two hd's) get repositioned to somewhere else on the desktop. I just drag them back to the upper right hand corner where I prefer to have them and go on about my business.
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    Hi JMengMO! And Welcome To Discussions!
    Positioning Desktop icons, too close to the edge of the screen, will cause them to reposition themselves on restart.
    Positioning them too close to each other, will cause this as well.
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    A different configuration may work for you. Experiment with the options until you find something suitable.
    Click on an open area of your Desktop.
    From the Finder's Toolbar, position your cursor over "View" and pull down to "Show View Options", and click. Or use the Command + J keys.
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  • Mac hard drive icon

    Mac hard drive icon is an ipod icon why is this so and how do I change it back?

    Or try this:
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  • Why can't my hard drive icon be altered?

    With my G4 I was able to copy and paste a picture onto my hard drive icon, changing its appearance on the desk top. With my G5 and Tiger, I am no longer able to do this. Apple support was unaware of this issue. Is anyone else with Tiger and a G5 able to go to info and copy and paste a new icon for the drive? Is there anyone else having this problem with Tiger when a new icon cannot be copied?
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    Just to clarify: when you open the hard drive info window and paste, does the icon change there, but not on the desktop? Or will the icon not change in the info window either? If the latter, it might be worth temporarily (can't stress enough the temporary part...)changing the ownership rules. When you get the info window, go down to Ownership & Permissions, then the Details section and change owner from system to your name from the list (You'll be prompted to enter system password). Do the cut & paste, then re-set the owner to system. This has worked for me on stubborn system icons.
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  • Hard Drive Icon ReAranged when system restarts

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    My screen seems to get a bit of reshuffle too. You might try using cmd (apple) down while you adjust things one at a time. That will lock them to the grid and maybe they will stay in place. I am not willing to restart to test it but I did see minor shifts in position, nice vertical array w uniform spacing, when I just tried it. See if that helps.
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  • Hard Drive icon won't open and menu bar flashes off and on

    All of a sudden, in the middle of the day, my eMac went haywire. I can launch apps and docs are one the desktop. But I cannot open the Hard Drive icon. If I double-click on it (or used Command-O from keyboard), the icon won't open. And when I attempt to open it, the Finder Menu Bar begins flashing off and on (vanishing, reappearing, vanishing) across the top of the screen. I haver rebooted, run disk utility to repair permissions, even booted from TechTools to run its diagnostics. But still no access to the Hard Drive icon. I logged out and logged in as a TEST user, and same thing happens even when logged in that way. Literally, this happened in an instant. One minute the eMac was fine, then this started. Anyone else seen this? -- david

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