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From: dorayme on 18 Jul 2010 03:35 In article <8afbvaFhhbU1(a)mid.individual.net>, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote: > On 2010-07-17 20:21:25 -0500, David Empson said: > > > How many icons are on your desktop? If it is completely full, then new > > icons will appear underneath existing ones. > > In general, it is not a good idea to have lots of icons on your desktop. > > Each icon on the desktop is implemented as a window and requires a fair > > amount of memory to maintain. > > Organising individual files on your desktop into folders is a good first > > step, as only the folder icon will be a window, not all the file icons. > > I guess I fall into the category of "minimalist" given that I normally > have no icons or folders on my desktop and have, other than the icons > for Folder and Trash, only icons for currently active applications and > files in my dock. Amusingly I've run contests with friends who claim > that my organization takes longer to access a file or application and > I've been able to prove that I can access things just as fast as they > can. It's a hard habit to break, how do you manage? I tidy my icons every day but I do a lot of clipping dragging and screen-shoting and have the desktop in modified last order so whatever drop wherever there is space between windows anywhere on the screens go straight to top left under the icons for the mounted disks. Dropping and saving is thus much simplified for many things, especially temporary things that need further work before final destination filing in folders. When I do tidy into folders just to get them off the desktop loose I cannot easily find things. I have a disgraceful DT folder called "temporary" that has been there for years and is basically useless it is so frighteningly big and chaotic, only Spotlight can do anything with it! Also a forbidding one called "clippings" and one called HTMLs. Putting anything in these is like dropping them into a black hole. When I come back, I want to come back as you, T. Which reminds me, the other night I saw a thoroughly good and beautiful film about reincarnation called Dean Spanley. -- dorayme
From: Johan W. Elzenga on 18 Jul 2010 04:19 John Young <myoung(a)cavtel.net> wrote: > Ok I screwed something up...and hope someone will help. > Things I put in my desktop folder don't show up on my desktop. Desktop > > folder is inside my home folder and has the correct icon just as it > should. How do you put those things in your desktop folder? Do you drag them into the folder in your home folder, or do you drag things straight to your desktop itself and then they somehow disappear? -- Johan W. Elzenga, Editor/Photographer, www.johanfoto.com
From: AES on 18 Jul 2010 12:45 In article <1jltucg.vf2pgpcjd9m9N%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>, dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote: > > In general, it is not a good idea to have lots of icons on your desktop. > Each icon on the desktop is implemented as a window and requires a fair > amount of memory to maintain. > Amen! I made a goof once and initiated a batch Move or Copy which put literally thousands of files on my desktop. The Finder response for any operations on the desktop after this happened was so slowed down that it was pretty much impossible to select any or all of these files (all layered on top of each other) and drag them back where they came from, or organize them into new folders. The only way I eventually found to recover from this was to fire up a second Mac and mount the first Mac, restarted in Target Disk mode, as an external HD to the second one. Once I did this, the Desktop Folder in the first Mac then appeared like an ordinary folder to the second Mac, and I could do massive file reorganizing within the first Mac's file system with no problems.
From: emelvy on 18 Jul 2010 20:15 > > In general, it is not a good idea to have lots of icons on your desktop. Does that comment apply to icons in Finder-window sidebars? For frequently-used items or apps, I drag the item or app into the sidebar of any Finder window which leaves an alias of that item in the sidebar. I have as many as 37 such icons in my Finder sidebars and it doesn't seem to me to exact any significant performance penalty.
From: David Empson on 18 Jul 2010 21:29
emelvy <halbertm(a)esper.com> wrote: > > > In general, it is not a good idea to have lots of icons on your desktop. > > Does that comment apply to icons in Finder-window sidebars? No. Icons on the actual desktop are each implemented as a separate window. Icons inside Finder windows (whether in the body, toolbar or sidebar) are just part of the window content, and don't have the extra overhead of needing to manage them as a window. > For frequently-used items or apps, I drag the item or app into the sidebar > of any Finder window which leaves an alias of that item in the sidebar. > I have as many as 37 such icons in my Finder sidebars and it doesn't seem > to me to exact any significant performance penalty. I wouldn't expect problems with that, apart from the usability issue of having to scroll through a huge list of things to find one you want. I use DragThing (shareware) with a series of tabs to keep track of frequently used applications and documents. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz |