Desktop folder issue

[Stephen Hart]

Yikes!
Sounds very scary to me. Who knows what damage I might do if I tried this.

The Shadow Knows!

Folder Actions are merely Applescripts or Automator scripts that a user can set up to manipulate folders automatically. If you follow the instructions you'll find one of two situations:

1. There are no Folder Actions. This will be the case unless someone set one up sometime in the past. No Folder Actions are set up as part of a stock OS X install.
2. There are one or more Folder Actions. You could probably tell immediately if one is set up to do the thing you're finding.

Disabling Folder Actions is reversible.

[Jay Cline]

Is this how you create new folders on this computer?

Create a folder
Click the desktop if you want to create the folder on the desktop; otherwise, open a Finder window and navigate to where you want to create the folder.
Choose File > New Folder, or press Shift–Command (⌘)–N. ...
Enter a name for the folder, then press Return.

[KarenColes]

Yes, it is.

[Jay Cline]

Please create a new folder and send us a screenshot of the desktop.

Press Shift-Command-3 to take a picture of the whole screen. To capture just part of the screen, press Shift-Command-4.

[KarenColes]

Will do ..... as soon as I visit the friend who has the problem. (But of course now it's my problem, too, since I'm the one who screwed up her computer.) Probably next week sometime. I appreciate your hanging in there with me on this one.

[Jay Cline]

If she's close to an Apple store it might be faster to have her make an appointment and take it in.

[KarenColes]

She's in Joyce .......... not very close to an apple store.

[KarenColes]

]Here's the desktop:


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[KarenColes]

New folder placed on desktop from File/New Folder:

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[KarenColes]

Contents of new folder (that should be empty) showing total contents of desktop:

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