Notifications cover my desktop file icons

I like having my Notifications appear and stay (until dismissed) on my iMac. They line up along the right side by default. However, I also like to save files to my desktop (call me old school). Unfortunately, my Notifications cover any newly saved desktop files -- even when I switch to a new Space. Is there an easy way around this? like, a way to temporarily hide Notifications? or to have new desktop items appear on the left of my screen instead of the right? Or anything else I should be trying and getting used to?... Thanks

Show Desktop: If you have a Trackpad spread thumb and three fingers out to show desktop it will push your notifications out the way, if you don't have a trackpad you can also make a keyboard shortcut for it System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Shortcuts >> Mission control >> Show Desktop and set your desired key.
OR
Turn on "Do Not Disturb" Open notification centre and scroll up you should find a toggle for "Do Not Disturb" by activating this mode your notifications that are waiting to be dismissed will be hidden and deactivating it will show them again.
OR
Alternatively if you don't like the above options you could mess around with your grid spacing settings for icon arrangement on your desktop simply right click on your desktop >> Show view Options >> and change the grid spacing slider, this may or may not work depends on your icon size and if you keep a lot of other stuff around on your desktop it's going to mess around with their positions too, I would imagine you will need the option "snap to grid" to be enabled for it to work, or you could just fill up the first 2 or 3 columns with folders or other files you don't always use then any new files will be saved after them. But I'm Sure the first 2 options will suffice, this last one was just some extra information....

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