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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: 1536294" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>I don't know what "proxmate advertising" is. But deleting the globalpreferences file shouldn't be making ads suddenly popping up in Chrome. That makes no sense at all. You should go ahead and restore the backup that you made of that file anyway since that didn't fix it. Regardless, you definitely have something weird going on. You may have a 3rd party app managing your desktop icons for all we know. If you open up Activity Monitor; save a list of your running processes; then copy/paste that list here, we can take a look at it.</p><p></p><p>I'm also going to point you to another post of mine on how to go on a bug hunt. Be certain to read it thoroughly and take care to make backups beforehand because this involves mass deleting folders/files temporarily, then restoring the originals.</p><p><a href="http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/298901-i-have-lost-keyboard-shortcut-option-help.html#post1515403" target="_blank">http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/298901-i-have-lost-keyboard-shortcut-option-help.html#post1515403</a></p><p></p><p>If you take this step, be sure to re-check the sorting options as previously described after each "batch" of deletions and log-ins. Speaking of which, can you make a screen cap of your sorting options for the Desktop? Right-click on the Desktop (not the folder), move your mouse to the "Sort by" field, then make the screen cap by pressing CMD-SHIFT-3.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1536294, member: 38864"] I don't know what "proxmate advertising" is. But deleting the globalpreferences file shouldn't be making ads suddenly popping up in Chrome. That makes no sense at all. You should go ahead and restore the backup that you made of that file anyway since that didn't fix it. Regardless, you definitely have something weird going on. You may have a 3rd party app managing your desktop icons for all we know. If you open up Activity Monitor; save a list of your running processes; then copy/paste that list here, we can take a look at it. I'm also going to point you to another post of mine on how to go on a bug hunt. Be certain to read it thoroughly and take care to make backups beforehand because this involves mass deleting folders/files temporarily, then restoring the originals. [url]http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-operating-system/298901-i-have-lost-keyboard-shortcut-option-help.html#post1515403[/url] If you take this step, be sure to re-check the sorting options as previously described after each "batch" of deletions and log-ins. Speaking of which, can you make a screen cap of your sorting options for the Desktop? Right-click on the Desktop (not the folder), move your mouse to the "Sort by" field, then make the screen cap by pressing CMD-SHIFT-3. [/QUOTE]
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