Desktop icon will not appear

i downloaded itunes but for some reason the desktop icon will not showup?

Downloaded or downloaded and installed?

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hi there
got a new 27 inch mac and icons will not appear on destop for example icon of a flash drive i put in, its on the left of the finder window but not on desktop as all my past mac have. Also downloaded drop box and that icon is not showing up as it should there to drag into applications folder. Im sure its a simple setting but I just cant find it!
Thanks

On Finder's menubar, Finder > Preferences > General tab > select internal and external disks.

HT1911 The iTunes setup would finish (clicking the finish button and everything) but the icon will not appear anywhere in my laptop?

The iTunes setup would finish (clicking the finish button and everything) but the icon will not appear anywhere in my laptop?

Try right clicking on your desktop then select new short cut from the drop down menu, find iTunes in the pop up window then click ok.

My Desktop Icons are not appearing or not going away

Hi there
This problem started occuring a while ago while I was downloading many files.
What is happening is, whem I download a file, the file download icon will appear on my desktop as it should, and as my mac always has done, it should show the actual file icon once the download is complete and then dissapear.
What is happening is that the download icon does not go away, and the file icon does not appear. Rather, when I click on the completed download icon, it suddenly dissapears, but the downloaded file icon does not appear.
The files do exist, as when I search for them in finder and select 'reveal in finder' the file suddenly appears on the desktop.
This is really annoying... I now lose track of what I have downloaded and dont know what is on my desktop.. I dont keep files on my desktop, I just need to download them to there before moving them..

Hi Dr Wong,
Have you tried designating a specific folder for the downloads to save to, rather than saving them to the desktop?
If you go to your browser preferences you can either create a new folder or choose an existing one to download to. This way you can see all your dwonloads in date/name order as you would with any other folder. I find that it's a lot easier to manage them this way.
Give it a try and see if it solves the problem. If you still have the same troubles come back to me.
Cheers RoboScott

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I am talking about the four different views at the top. Like the thumbnails, icon, album cover view. I hope this makes since. Once I change from one view to the next the folder appears on the desktop.

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do I have to go to System>Library>CoreServices>Menu Extras and I double click on them and then
they appear in the Menu Bar
Macbook Pro 17" 2.33mhz, 3gb ram, 120gb hard drive, 802.11n Base station
I have ran disk utility, Drive Genius, Leopard Cache Cleaner with no help from any of these
please help me as I have no idea why this happening..?
Thanks Michael

Yes I do and that is another problem I will check the box for each item I do want to show up
in the menu bar when I check the box it will stay checked until just when I'm starting to close the
box? This really weird as I said in my 1st post I have to go to the System Library>CoreServices
then the folder Menu Extra's I'm just about at the point of reinstalling my OS unless someone
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Selected Desktop Picture Will Not Appear

I recently downloaded this picture from this site:
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details.php?id=654
I have done so on both my iBook G4 (12") and now my iMac G5 (20"). I selected the file for 1680x1050 to match my resolution settings.
I placed the file in the Desktop Pictures folder and opened System Preferences. A thumbnail of the image appears in the list of choices as the other images do and I select it. However, the image does not appear on my desktop, instead I get a solid default blue background and that is it.
Other images I have downloaded to not appear to have the same problem and I am able to open the picture with Preview with out issue. I have tried various File sizes and resolution settings with no effect. I did not have this issue on my iBook.
Any idea how to fix this?

Hi, Jason.
I was able to reproduce the problem you are seeing with that image. I also tried the 1900x1200 download version: same problem.
I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that the details for the file (perform a Get Info on the image, open the More Info panel) shows:
"Profile Name: Calibrated RGB Colorspace"
which is the ColorSync Profile specified in the image. I'm using the Cinema HD color profile with my 30-inch Cinema HD Display, so perhaps that may explain why the image cannot be used as a desktop image: lack of matching ColorSync profile.
I was able remove the specified ColorSync profile as follows:
1. Open the file in Preview.
2. Select File > Save As.
3. Specify a new name for the file.
4. Specify a location for saving the file.
5. Select JPEG file type and desired Quality.
6. Click Save.
I was then able to use the newly saved image as my desktop picture.
Good luck!
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Yes....It happens all the time. I also erased my HD and installed Snow Leopard but with no success. Tried lots of REBOOTING but nothing worked for me.As I have already installed the new OSX I think there is no need to go through the below procedure. What do you suggest?
Before you go through the ritual of reinstalling the entire system just try to do a "factory reset" of your bluetooth environment. To do this you need to run the Bluetooth Explorer which is a utility installed as part of XCode.
1. Launch Bluetooth Explorer.
2. Select the "Modify Software & Device Configuration" from the Utilities menu.
3. Keep the first 4 checkboxes checked (one will say "Full factory reset").
4. Click "Perform actions" button (lower right of window).
5. Reboot (possibly the Reboot NOW button will work, if not just do a normal reboot).
Hopefully that will clear your problem(s) so you can re-pair your bluetooth devices.
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PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-105:
Firmware Revision:          A506
Interconnect:          ATAPI
Burn Support:          Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache:          2000 KB
Reads DVD:          Yes
CD-Write:          -R, -RW
DVD-Write:          -R, -RW
Write Strategies:          CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:          Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds
yes its a power mac thanks its been a long month and Merry Christmas thanks for checking my question im hoping its a driver problem but not liking some other stuff looking like replace drive

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