My icons are on my desktop are stuck

my 4 year old did something and now my desktop icons are stuck halfway off the screen

From the Finder menu bar have you tried View-Clean Up or View-Arrange by Name?

Similar Messages

  • My bookshelf and Facebook icons are stuck in "waiting" apparently updating for more than a week, but I don't remember trying to update them.  I tried pressing the home and sleep buttons in as suggested, but problem not fixed

    My bookshelf and Facebook icons are stuck in "waiting" apparently updating for more than a week, but I don't remember trying to update them.  I tried pressing the home and sleep buttons in as suggested, but problem not fixed

    Keep to one discussion only. Go back to this one,
    https://discussions.apple.com/message/21087117#21087117

  • I tried to download games and now the icons are stuck in waiting.  I have an Ipad 2.

    On my ipad2 I tried to download games from app store.  The apps are stuck in waiting mode and not installing.  I have downloaded other apps after this happened and the newer apps are working fine.

    check your itunes download queue. I had 18 items stuck and it did not try to download anything before I cleared that. I had the same problem with apps stuck in waiting and had tried reboot and deleting the app and retry but what finally solved the issue was clearing the iTunes download queue.
    Good luck everyone.

  • Drag and Drop error - icons are stuck to the cursor

    For the last few days when I try to use drag and drop, the items stick to the cursor and cannot be dislodged without a force quit or a reboot. That is they drag, but they do not drop. This is really sub-optimal.
    Has this happened to anyone else? How do I fix it?

    Idiot question - How do I re-install Leopard? No matter what I do, it kicks the disk out on restart. I have tried using the 'install' command on the disk, nothing. It kicks the disk out and boots from the hard drive. I have tried rebooting holding down the 'c' key to force it to read from the drive, it still kicks the disk out and boots from the hard drive. What else should I do?
    I researched back further and found another thread where people were complaining of the same drag and drop issue: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6446208
    Someone suggested a solution involving permissions. I fixed my permissions. Drag and drop is still not working.
    There was also a set of commands to type into terminal that would supposedly fix the issue, or perhaps it was a Spotlight issue that the thread had morphed into. I did that. Drag and drop is still not working.
    Am I just totally hosed? Help!

  • All my desktop icons are Adobe Reader icons, can't access related files

    I was trying to open a file this morning, and when a pop-menu asked what application I wanted to choose (from a list) to open it, I clicked on Adobe Reader - just as a guess.   After that,  just about all my desktop icons are Adobe icons, and when I click on them, the pop up menus says I can't access the file.   These icons also show up on my menu of all my MS Office programs like Outlook, Word, Excel,  etc. 
    Tech support at Adobe recommended I use System Restore, but it also is now an Adobe icon, so I can't open it.    If anyone can help reverse this, I'd greatly appreciate it.
    Thanks,
    David

    Hi,
    This also happened to me this morning. Now all my icons are PDF symbols and Reader opens when I try to open any other program. I uninstalled Reader it and it fixed itself but when I reinstalled the program the same issue occurred.
    I wanted to make PDF reader the default application when openning PDF's vs. Distiller, tinkered and broke my computer.
    Any clues on how to bring everything back to normaL?

  • Desktop icons are no longer trusted, custom home directory [solved]

    I have my home directory on a raid, and have noticed that after switching it the desktop icons no longer work properly (icons are missing/default blank as well and labeled <filename>.desktop. Even if I create a new launcher on the desktop it still won't work.
    For example, I click chromium.desktop, and I get the follow message:
    Untrusted application launcher
    The application launcher "chromium.desktop" has not been marked as trusted. If you do not know the source of this file, launching it may be unsafe.
    Marking it as safe does nothing, launching anyway will work. However, the annoyance of no icons and a <filename>.desktop is rather annoying. If I switch back to my original /home/user$ it works fine again. I even tried binding the raid location to /home/user$ and it still has a problem unless I go back to the original home directory path.
    Any thoughts?
    Last edited by jskier (2010-06-02 00:48:49)

    Removing "user" from the fstab line of the raid fixed this.

  • SInce i installed Lion, my desktop icons are lining up like regimented Windows icons!  how do i get them to stay where i put them, like they used to do?  thanks! ellen

    SInce i installed Lion, my desktop icons are lining up like regimented Windows icons! 
    how do i get them to stay where i put them, like they used to do? 
    thanks!
    ellen

    In that case, there may be a problem with your Finder preferences or window settings.
    Try removing these files, then restarting:
    ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
    ~/Desktop/.DS_Store
    Let me know if you're not sure how to do that.

  • File icons are missing from my ML desktop. Name is there but the icon is missing.  How do I fix this?

    Some of my file icons are missing from the Mountain Lion desktop.  The file name is there but not the icon.  The file can be opened when the words are double clicked.  The files show up properly in Adobe Bridge.  These are Photoshop files.  How do I fix the problem?

    Get Info (cmd-i) on one of these files. In the "Open with" tab is PS selected?
    If that's so it may be some corruption LaunchServices.These are only cache files but can get corrupted.
    Launch /Utilities/Terminal and copy & paste this at the command line to rebuild LaunchServices:
    (EDIT: Be sure to copy the entire line of code it is a slider)
    Code:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
    Then press return. Wait until terminal returns to the command line. Quit Terminal. After that, log out and back in or restart. Let us know

  • All Illustrator File Icons are White on mac os desktop and HD?

    All Illustrator File Icons are White on mac os desktop and HD?  System MacOs 10.10.1  Same thing in Adobe CS 6 and system 10.8. I create a new user and result was the same.

    From the Finder menu View>View Options check show icon previews

  • My mail is stuck in yesterday's mail.  None of the icons are accessible.  Can't open delete or change mailboxes.  Still getting mail.  Any suggestions?

    My mail is stuck in yesterday's mail.  None of the icons are accessible.  Can't open delete or change mailboxes.  Still getting mail.  Any suggestions?

    This forum is for troubleshooting Mail under Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, not Leopard. You'll probably want to post your question in the Leopard Mail discussions:
    http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1223

  • Desktop icons are rearranged after booting

    Sometimes - I cannot make up the reason - my desktop icons are rearranged after booting in alphabetical order,
    and also the icon-arrangement in some of the folders placed on the desktop is rearranged !!!
    I'm used to arrange my icons in my way, and it's terrible, if the icon order is ****** up !!!
    What's wrong? What can I do?

    juleb wrote:
    Thanks.
    It looks like, that there is no solution yet for this problem !!!
    As far as I see, there' no thread that offers a solution.
    I there a way to knock at Apple's door to see, if they are at least aware of this problem ???
    To some degree the problem with the desktop icons has been going on, well, forever!  There were even problems back in OS9 days trying to arrange the desktop the way you personally wanted them.  To solve that problem then the utility DIM (Desktop Icon Manager) was born.  And believe it or not, the OSX descendent of DIM still exists today!  See this link.  Yes, DIM still exists because the problem still exists.
    Interestingly enough I don't have the problem with my desktop so I don't use DIM.  I initially did install it before I discovered my desktop icons were staying put without it.  Everywhere else is another story.  Don't get me started on that (d@mn View Options hierarchical effect).
    Speaking of View Option, one thing to check is to see if your View Options for the desktop are snap to grid or None.  I use snap to grid.

  • Strange icons are appearing on my desktop

    Can anybody explain what these strange icons are that keep appearing on my desktop.  They just appear to be images of icons and are not functioning icons of any sort.  Very strange!?
    They are in the bottom left corner of the screenshot attached.

    Your link does not work.

  • Why are mp3 icons appearing on my desktop when closing firefox

    I unsuccessfully tried to download ringtones, now when i close firefox these ringtone icon appear on my desktop.

    I deleted the download.sqlite files twice, but they keep reappearing in the profile directory when i open it. just like the icons do in my desktop.]
    After a whole lot of trial and errors, and other program changes that I did not understand, Last night I went to Help/troubleshooting information and reset Firefox to Default State!!!! and the icons are no longer appearing.
    '''''that easy'''''
    ascobie1

  • Desktop icons are displaying like file in a folder structure. hot to get rid of that.

    Hi,
     My desktop icons are  displaying as below.  I want like the original windows icons. How to to . Can any one help me.

    This forum is for question from developers on using the Windows.Forms libraries to build applications. For questions about using Windows, try
    answers.microsoft.com.

  • My Desktop Icons are messed up

    Recently I've been having a problem with the way my icons are arranged. It's like the screen its moved a little bit up. There's an image to show you how it looks like when it happens (because it happens sometimes, I dunno what i causes)
    Also, when my mac enter sleeping mode, the login screen its moved a little bit up too.
    Please, help me solve this cause its very irritating.
    Thanks, any help will be well received

    Have you tried FINDER>VIEW>CLEANUP?
    Ciao.

Maybe you are looking for

  • IMac G3 DVD 400-3 beeps

    I have a friends iMac to fix, it has been difficult; I posted at first about a DiscWarrior cd that was stuck in the drive "causing it to not start", requesting help with getting the disc out. Well I got the CD out by dismantling the computer and remo

  • How to identify exception stack traces in  log files programmatically

    Hello, I would like to develop a utility program which audits the command line or log files and detects exceptions. Do you know any good way of identifying exception stack traces from a stream? Are you aware of any existing tool that does something s

  • Airplay on iPad

    How do I turn airplay OFF on my ipad? Like disable it or just get RID OF IT completely? It's been sucking the juice from my ipad battery for a few weeks now and I don't even have a use for it...Thanks.

  • Album artwork/cover flow not showing up?

    I added my own artwork to some of my songs but they are not showing up in cover flow or when I'm playing the songs. Even the songs I didn't add my own artwork to (the iTunes ones), they don't show up either. Help? =P

  • How to use offset in getting the last 7 digit of a sting

    Hi, Will you please tell me, how I can use Offset like command for the following code :- Data :- v_file type string . Let v_file = xyz/abc/ABCD/pq.rs.tuv1234 I want to take last 7 digit i.e. "tuv1234" Please tell me.. Saurabh