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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder "Clean Up"
Summary: Yeah, but
Message-ID: <1899@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 90 19:53:42 GMT
References: <9228@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1771@petsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1771@petsd.UUCP> hill@petsd.UUCP (John S. Hill) writes:

>Set the "Always Grid Drags" (or something like that) bit in the Finder's
>LAYO resource, and you'll never have to clean up again.  Icons will always
>be gridded (if that's a word).  There are some other interesting bits to
>set/reset there also.  Enjoy.

Yeah, but the Finder is awfully stupid about how it deals with this.  It will
allow you to put one icon on top of another, thus totally obscuring it.  This
is okay (marginally) if you're moving things around on your own, so you can
control placement, but I've had programs like Word write their new documents
out and had the icon cover the old ones.  What a pain!!!  I just always hold
down Command while I drag, causing the icons to pop to the grid....

--Mike