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re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 5:43 pm Posted by Bob B (1139 messages posted) Does doing a refresh (F5 or right-click and choose "Refresh") make a difference? On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 1:55 pm, DickM wrote: >When dragging (or copying) a file from a directory directly to the Desktop, the operation >is performed, but no ICON appears on the desktop. If the Desktop is viewed in the >folders dialog box, the file is there, and can be dragged back into another folder. > >If the file in question isn't dragged directly to the desktop, but instead to the >Desktop in the folder tree, the ICON then appears on the desktop. > >This looks like a Vista error. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks! Dick [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 8:28 pm Posted by DickM (7 messages posted) Thanks, Bob B -- but -- nope...a Desktop refresh doesn't display the icon. If I select a file and "send to desktop" -- no problem, the shortcut appears. If I drag a file to "Desktop" in the file tree -- no problem, the file is moved to the desktop and is visible. If I do a "control-drag" to Desktop in the file tree, a visible copy appears on the desktop. BUT -- drag the file directly to the desktop OR do a control-drag to create a copy and it appears in the file tree under desktop -- but no icon appears on the desktop! Is there anyone out there with Vista who can replicate this? It's such a simple thing -- I can't believe I'm unique. I also find it hard to believe that this is a bug in Vista -- it's such a simple operation -- but nothing surprises me at this point. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 9:04 pm Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (6749 messages posted) I just tried dragging, CTRL-dragging, and r/c-dragging a simple text file from the downloads subfolder of my user folder in Windows Explorer to the desktop, and it worked as expected, at all time an icon was instantly displayeds on the desktop. Is your odd behavior happening when trying from all sorts of different folders, say system folders, profile folders, and general folders just off the root? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 8:22 am Posted by DickM (7 messages posted) Dan -- thanks for replying. I started looking closer at the tree structure and discovered something I hadn't seen before -- apparently new to the Vista environment. I'll go into detail here, because others may experience the same confusion I have My user name on the computer is "Dick". If I look at the main roots when I click "start-computer", I see "Desktop", under which are "Dick", "Public", and "Computer". If I expand "Computer" and click "(c:)", "Users" -- I again see "Dick". I have a personal folder called "Data" under "Dick". If I drag anything to the desktop from that folder, everything works OK and appears on the desktop. Previously I was dragging out of the folder "Dick/Data" which appears directly under "Desktop". Anything dragged from that location to the desktop appears in the right window if I click on "Desktop", but no icon appears on the desktop. Here's my confusion: why is there is a user folder called "Dick" in both places. I don't understand the folder directly under "Desktop" and it exhibits the odd behavior with dragging -- which the same apparent folder under c:users/dick/data doesn't! Now I'm wondering if all this is somehow connected to my inability to share the Data folder over my home network. I see the folder from other computers, the permissions are all set to share, but access is denied. Whatever has changed with Vista, I'm not "getting". Enlightenment would be appreciated! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 4:38 pm Posted by jabronne2 (4 messages posted) Well dick it sounds like youve messed up your users permissions and are somehow locking yourself out of certain folders. Im assuming you did all this while trying to "share" that folder. Check out the xp-vista file sharing thread a little lower. Did you say you were sharing with ME? Some will say it cant be done... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Drag to Desktop - no ICON appears on desktop Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 6:10 pm Posted by DickM (7 messages posted) jabronne2: It sounds like you're replying to a problem I described in another thread -- sharing on a network with Vista -- and, no, it's not with ME machines, but XP machines. And the problem is in opening a Vista folder from either XP machine. I'm a pretty experienced user and I've tried permissions, firewalls, and other security options in every combination possible with no good results. I also haven't been able to figure out the problem in this thread -- drag-to-desktop files and folders not appearing on the desktop, yet appearing in the tree. At this point I'm waiting to contact someone with Vista who I can have a phone conversation with. I've called several IT friends who are also unable to help. If anyone would like to compare notes on the phone -- let me know and I'll call you! 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