20 inch cinema display

by peter L May 14, 2006 4:56AM PDT

I updated my 17" screen for a new 20" cinema display on my G4 MDD dual 1.25 os 10.3.9 2Gb ram. Did the calibration and the system recognises the right displyay.
When I download a file the system puts the file in the lower right corner of the screen.Since I have >20 partitions the new files lands always on an icon. This didn't happen on the 17' display.
A cure any one?
thank you
Peter

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You have more than 20 partitions?

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator May 14, 2006 5:30AM PDT

What size HD do you have that would justify chopping a drive up into so many pieces?

The cure may be to change the screen resolution from, 1280 X 1024. to something more realistic for that size monitor.

Second cure would be for you to direct your browser to place downloaded files into a specific folder on the desktop. This would also avoid having a cluttered desktop, which never looks very pretty.

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desktop clutter

by peter L Jun 10, 2006 2:31AM PDT

thanks for the reply,been on holiday, so late reply from me.missed the follow up mail since my mailbox was full.

I have 3 x 120 Gb disks partitioned for music,picts,applications,DMG's,3x back-up os partition etc...
this was so when I had my 17''.The 20'' is on 1680x1050 anything less is not nice.
Thanks for the hint for a download desktop folder,looks better !!!
but the same problem remains when I load a cd,dvd,ext HDD,USB stick etc... it ends up in the lower right corner on top of a partition.The OS puts the partition there, so why does it not remember this for the 20'' screen as it did for the 17''?
I have a mac since the SE30 and never had this behaviour before on any machine,a new item was always put on the next free space from right to left, top to bottom.
appreciate any help on this strange topic.
thanks
Peter

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Take a look

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Jun 10, 2006 2:45AM PDT

at the view settings for the Finder. See if setting the "arrange by" to something else, helps.
20 partitions still seems like overkill but if you are happy with it, that;s ok. You might want to burn off the .dmg files to DVD and empty that partition out. After all, how often do you reinstall stuff?

If the "arrange" thing does not work, find the Finder preferences and trash them. A new set will be created on restart and may make a difference.

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20"

by peter L Jun 10, 2006 3:40AM PDT

thanks for a swift reply !!!

keep arranged by * solves the problem but then my desktop is not as i intended it to look like ofcourse.

later i will trash the Finder preferences and see.
It seems that I'm the first to mention this, so I guess then that my settings will play tricks instead of an incompatibility between G4-OS10.3.9 and the newer 20' cinema display as I had not a problem with my 17".

May I ask another question,maybe for another forum?
Is there a way to keep my photos on a different partition then the startup and still use iPhoto without iPhoto copying everything to the startup? Just as iTunes does.Why? I don't like too much on my startup then the strict neccesary. You could guess from the >20 partitions

thanks for the great replies an other forums I like your kind of solutions.
kind regards
Peter

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iTunes and iPhoto

by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Jun 10, 2006 9:20AM PDT

Yes, you can have your iTunes/iPhoto library on another partition if you like. Just go to preferences and tell iTunes where the Library is housed and it will look there for your stuff. Preferences/Advanced/Change and then follow the instructions.

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20 inch cinema display

by taboma May 15, 2006 6:24AM PDT

Presently I have a 17 inch Viewsomic G90fb Monitor and I set the display at 1024x768. Colors: millions. Refresh rate at 85 Herts.
Reset your display with system preferances/Displays.
Lower your display as mrmacfixit has suggested.

Partioning your hard drive into 20 seems a bit much. Ask mrmacfixit for the right way to do this.
Presently I have two. Why 20 for you in the first place?

Can you clean up your desktop display area also with Safari? Do you have too many folders on your desktop? View/options.
Re-arrange your desktop, snap to grid? This may help.
For really technical help ask Peter.

-Kevin

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20 inch cinema display

by peter L Jun 10, 2006 2:40AM PDT

I have some 40 aliasses on the desktop besides the partitions,doesn't seem much on a 20" the middle is free space.
I tried "snap to grid" but still same problem.
Anything lower then 1680x1050 (1280x800/1344x840) looks awfull and crammed.this settings are different as it is a cinema display.

thanks for the reply
peter

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