Scenario: You have a Desktop with too many things on it and you haven't got it (and probably don't want it) to snap to any grid or arrange by any kind. You have icons all over the show, some overlapping others and there's no way you're going to actually move things off the Desktop. OK, so maybe you don't, but a client of mine does.Requirement: Because things are so higgledy-piggledy, my client couldn't find a particular file in amongst the godforsaken mess. When I showed her the 'Arrange by Kind' option, she hated how "...inflexible and un-Mac-like" it was. So I needed a one time way to arrange the files in some order (so she could find what she needed), and then go back to letting her move them about without constraint.Solution: You may think: "Oh, just choose 'Arrange by Kind' then 'Arrange by None,' and things will be fine." No, they won't -- when you do, the icons will go straight back to their original disorganized state when you do. The trick is to arr...

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