Turned on my computer yesterday and to my great surprise all my desktop icons were gone in Mac OS X Snow. Odd! Didn’t care for it much at first; was hoping it would be temporarily glitch of some sort, but this morning same thing again. So did some digging to find a solution for this nuisance.
Solution ain’t difficult (when you know your way around the Apple / Linux system folders). You have to go into Finder and within your user folder, open:
~/Library/Caches/
find and delete (thus move to trash) this file:
“com.apple.preferencepanes.cache”
Then go into system preferences, so the file can recreate itself, and you’re done; Return from the icons! But so small Right mouse button click / CTRL + mouse click -> Show View Options, and drag the slider to the size your prefer. Also interesting options in this pane are: grid spacing, label position, show icon preview, and keep icons arranged (comparable with “auto arrange” in Windows).
So next to restoring my icons, I’ve also increased usability! Hurray!
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Communities I have been 'hanging out' regularly over the past two decades.
- Nomadlist.com since 2022-04
- Empire.Kred since 2021-07
- Karma-Lab.com since 2019-01
- Invision Community since 2018-05
- Insanely Mac since 2018-02
- eGPU.io since 2017-04
- Tech Inferno since 2016-08
- forum.VestaCP.com since 2016
- WordPress.org since 2015-12
- Couch Surfing since 2014
- BitcoinTalk.org since 2014-03
- Warrior Forum since 2013-07
- Empire Avenue since 2013
forum.OSXLatitude.comsince 2011-08- Envato (i.e. CodeCanyon) since 2011-07
- TripAdvisor since 2010-09
MoneyMakerGroup.comsince 2007-03- HardWare.info since 2003-08
- SynthForum.NL since 2001-11
- gathering.tweakers.net since 2000-11
Note: links go to my profile on those respective sites. Connect with me if you like.
- EarnWithEarnie.io since 2022
- EarnWithEarnie.net since 2018
- BestProfitsTeam.com since 2017
- CycleClubMembers.com since 2015
- BestSTIFORPteam.com 2013-2021
