In Snow Leopard Pages'09 files suddenly do not appear on desk top.What to do?
Hello,
When I open a template in My Templates (Pages'09) and want to save it to the desktop, all of a sudden that doesn't work anymore. The file can be found with Spotlight but I can't have it on the desktop.
Does anyone have an idea?
Ben
Sounds to me like you have a corrupt plist file.
First thing I would try would be to simply relaunch your Finder and see if that sorts your problem.
>ForceQuit>Finder>Relaunch
If not navagate to com.apple.desktop.plist and delete.
Finder>GO>(option Key)Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
or in Finder shortcut ( ⇧⌘G) copy and paste:
~/Library/Preferences/
delete the com.apple.desktop.plist
Relaunch your Finder again.
The deleted plist will rebuild itself to default setting after Finder relaunch
Report back on your sucess or failure.
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