Get desktop icons out from under the Dock

Dec 17, '08 07:30:03AM

Contributed by: Sesquipedalian

If you move the Dock from the bottom to the right side of your desktop, you may find that the icons on the right side of your Desktop become partially hidden underneath the Dock. This is both ugly and makes it more difficult to click on those icons (such as your hard drive's icon). What you want to happen, of course, is for the desktop icons to move over towards the left in order to make space for the Dock.

For some reason, Finder doesn't reset the icon grid on the desktop when the Dock is moved to the side of the screen. A quick Google search on this issue revealed nothing more helpful than the suggestion to set the Dock to automatically hide. But there is an easy way to get the Finder to move the desktop icons out from under the Dock.

Click on the Desktop, select Show View Options from the View menu, and slide the Grid Spacing slider around. As soon as you do this, the grid will be reset to respect the position of the Dock, and will move your desktop icons out from underneath the Dock. You can then put the slider back into the same position you had it before, and close the View Options palette.

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