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Apple Computing Products:
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Lion: 10.8.4 Problem with Drag and Drop to desktop
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1535828" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>A reinstall is complete overkill. The "Finder" plist may not have been the correct one. There's a special one for the Desktop that has settings specific to the Desktop space. Go to your home Library (not the root Library) and find <strong>com.apple.desktop.plist</strong> in <strong><em>yourhomefolder</em>/Library/Preferences</strong> and delete that. Then log out and back in. A virgin copy of the file will get re-created, so you may have to repeat the steps I gave before to ensure sorting is set to "None" and "Snap to Grid" is off.</p><p></p><p>If that or any of the other suggestions fail to work, then see my signature for one last "tip" to try. Deleting that file has solved some weirdness for myself and others in the past.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1535828, member: 38864"] A reinstall is complete overkill. The "Finder" plist may not have been the correct one. There's a special one for the Desktop that has settings specific to the Desktop space. Go to your home Library (not the root Library) and find [B]com.apple.desktop.plist[/B] in [B][I]yourhomefolder[/I]/Library/Preferences[/B] and delete that. Then log out and back in. A virgin copy of the file will get re-created, so you may have to repeat the steps I gave before to ensure sorting is set to "None" and "Snap to Grid" is off. If that or any of the other suggestions fail to work, then see my signature for one last "tip" to try. Deleting that file has solved some weirdness for myself and others in the past. [/QUOTE]
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