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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Dragged files show up in the corner
Date: 18 Feb 2014 20:07:50 GMT
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On 2014-02-18, Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <isw-4882B6.10194818022014@[216.168.3.50]>,
>  isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>
>> In article <do_ray_me-B73EED.17462218022014@news.albasani.net>,
>>  dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Click on the desktop to be in Finder. You should have a menu item 
>>> called View. Under that item in a dropdown there should be a sub item 
>>> called Arrange by... Select that and you get choices.
>> 
>> That option is available for ordinary folders, but not for the desktop 
>> (at least in 10.8.2 ML).
>
> Interesting. The Arrange By option is there in Snow Leopard. I wonder 
> why they would have removed it.

*blink*...

They didn't - they renamed it, as anyone who just looks can see:

<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/finder/desktop_sort_by.png>

You can also see the "Show View Options" menu command in that very same
menu, which leads to this window, offering plenty of options for
arranging items on the desktop:

<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/finder/desktop_view_options.png>

As you can see, it's anything but rocket science. 

Use your eyes - that's what they are there for!

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