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Re: Problem getting position of desktop items
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Re: Problem getting position of desktop items


  • Subject: Re: Problem getting position of desktop items
  • From: Allen Watson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:20:45 -0700

On or near 7/21/04 12:08 AM, Shane Stanley at email@hidden
observed:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:51:46 -0300, Bill Briggs wrote:
>
>> I still download
>> stuff to the desktop, and file it when I have time. But I'd like to
>> be able to tidy it up in the meantime.
>
> You need the magic method shown to me by a certain chap by the name of
> Sal. Every time the desktop gets cluttered, just create a new user.

I've been doing something less drastic: I have a folder action script that
creates a new dated folder when a file arrives on the desktop; all files for
that day go into that folder. At the end of a month, I turn off the folder
action, create a "month" folder, and drag all the daily folders for the past
month into it. So my desktop currently has folders for January thru June,
and daily folders for any day in July when I've dropped stuff on the
Desktop. So far, that's working fairly well. The script is called FolderOrg:

<http://homepage.mac.com/dougeverly/folderorg.html>
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