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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 21:57:24 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-02-18, dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> In article <bmhqq3Fdm2cU2@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> Choose: View > Show View Options instead. 
>
> Yes, as I said:
>
> "There is also another item under the View menu called Show View 
> Options, this gives you choices for the desktop too."
>
> But OP seems not to have that option according to his replies.

Doubt that. The View Options (⌘ J) facility has been part of Mac OS X
Finder for *quite* a few Mac OS X releases. I think it's more likely he
simply didn't pay attention to what was right in front of him:

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

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

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