Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.system > #56754

Re: Dragged files show up in the corner

Show all headers | View raw

On 2014-02-20, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <bmk263Fs153U2@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-02-19, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>> > In article <6129e50b-6167-4f10-8f0f-b8eea4aad495@googlegroups.com>,
>> >  Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> There is nothing on the page that you reference above to solve the
>> >> OP's issue with files dragged on to the Desktop which are then
>> >> deposited by the Finder in the top left corner of the Desktop.  The
>> >> real problem is Apple programmers just don't preserve the x,y
>> >> coordinates and, since they don't, the file(s) receive values of
>> >> (0,0) i.e.  the top left corner of the screen.
>> >
>> > Bingo! First reasonable response. Thanks.
>> 
>> That seems incorrect to me. Some people in this thread have already
>> discussed the fact that on occasion, icons get placed incorrectly.
>> Others have asked questions about how the OP's desktop is configured,
>> but haven't been able to get that information due to an unwillingness or
>> inability of the OP to provide it.
>
> Which configuration would cause dropped icons to occasionally be 
> deposited in the upper left corner?
>
> If I knew that, I could check to see if that's the way I have things set 
> up.

So you refuse to answer the question. Ok.

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

Back to comp.sys.mac.system | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-17 12:12 -0800
  Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-17 20:22 +0000
  Re: Dragged files show up in the corner nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-17 15:45 -0500
  Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-18 08:25 +1100
    Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-17 21:03 -0800
      Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 05:10 +0000
        Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 17:35 -0800
          Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 02:21 +0000
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jack Shown <jackshown@gmail.com> - 2014-02-18 18:38 -0800
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 04:24 +0000
          Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-18 22:50 -0800
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 15:50 +0000
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-19 21:41 -0800
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 16:11 +0000
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-20 23:58 -0800
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-21 05:52 -0500
      Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-18 17:46 +1100
        Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-18 10:19 -0800
          Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-02-18 14:25 -0500
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-19 06:56 +1100
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 20:07 +0000
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-19 08:22 +1100
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2014-02-18 22:16 +0000
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-18 22:47 -0800
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2014-02-19 14:52 -0600
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-19 21:57 -0800
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 16:19 +0000
          Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 19:32 +0000
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-19 07:41 +1100
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-18 21:57 +0000
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-18 22:40 -0800
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 15:47 +0000
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-19 21:59 -0800
            Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-18 22:32 -0800
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-19 18:39 +1100
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-19 22:10 -0800
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-20 20:35 +1100
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-20 16:13 +0000
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-21 08:22 +1100
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-19 15:56 +0000
                Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-19 22:05 -0800
              Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 15:01 +0000
          Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-20 14:54 +0000
    Re: Dragged files show up in the corner billy@MIX.COM - 2014-02-18 05:37 +0000
  Re: Dragged files show up in the corner John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2014-02-17 17:07 -0500
    Re: Dragged files show up in the corner isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-02-17 21:00 -0800
  Re: Dragged files show up in the corner Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> - 2014-02-18 11:52 +0000

csiph-web