Comments on: Clean the Mac OS X Desktop Automatically

By: TBrown

TBrown — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:43:12 +0000

found them… Thank you

By: TBrown

TBrown — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:41:25 +0000

Do you know where the short-cuts/icons/doc(s), etc on the desk top goes. I need to put some of them back. Thank you in advance for your help.

By: 8 Simple Tips to Speed Up an Old Mac

8 Simple Tips to Speed Up an Old Mac — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:05:16 +0000

[...] Clear Files and Folders Off Desktop – Each file and folder shown on the desktop uses memory to display. Use the home folder and their directories to sort and store files, or at the very least, throw everything from the desktop into another folder and keep it in your home directory. We’ve covered this tip before and we’ll reiterate it again because it can make quite a difference, especially on older Macs. If you can’t remember to do this, there are apps that will do it for you. [...]

By: Charles Dale

Charles Dale — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:17:09 +0000

What I did what just make a file and I named it Desktop and put all the files from my Desktop and put them in the file and put the file in Documents. Then when I download a file to my desktop, at the end of the day I just move the files to that folder and keep the ones I really need on my Desktop. I check my desktop everyday and do this to keep on top of things.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:59:43 +0000

There is some truth to that in each desktop file or icon takes up memory and requires the screen to redraw each time the desktop is shown. It’s good practice to keep the desktop clean, regardless.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:42:19 +0000

An IT friend told me, that one should always keep your Desktop as clean as possible, because it is ‘always active’ in the background the more/& larger the file = slower performance.
Is this true?

By: Ann T. Oknee

Ann T. Oknee — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 04:12:05 +0000

Camouflage hides desktop clutter. Or really –> pulls the background image forward.

I appreciate the freeware, but the idea isn’t actually intuitive. You see, the entire point of the desktop is to keep fairly critical things handy. All downloads on my Mac typically hit the desktop first as my grand central.

What CLEAN is accidentally doing is maybe tucking away something you need with a lot of crap you don’t. I know, there’s a workaround with labels, but then that defeats the point of CLEAN.

An app that would be useful is a quick way to file stuff that’s on the desktop, since the Finder BLOWS at this.

By: Chip

Chip — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:28:02 +0000

Seems worth a try. I use spotlight to find the files i want so I really don’t care where they are to an extent. i’m thinking as long as they are in the documents folder then i’m good.

going a step further would be the ability to use keywords to specify which subfolder to put them in. For example, keyword ‘AT&T’ or ‘Verizon’ being assigned to a Mobile Carriers folder and files with AT&T or Verizon in the file name go there…

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:24:21 +0000

You might be thinking of DesktopUtility, which we wrote about a while back:

http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/26/get-4-useful-mac-os-x-features-in-your-menu-bar-with-desktoputility/

It lets you hide and show the desktop, as well as invisible files and a few other functions, from the menu bar.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:18:18 +0000

Not to get off topic, but isn’t there a way to hide and show the desktop constantly without using the defaults terminal all the time? There was an app to do this right?