06-09-2007, 07:32 AM -
Sure - thanks!
In retrospect: when I installed, there was point regarding plug-ins, and I think installation went past that step inadvertently absorbing ALL of them. I now see a l-o-n-g list... and don't know if they're integrated into TLB or accessible to it.
Trying to set up --- I created a folder in TLB, labeled it and changed its icon. I then dragged a couple of desktop folders into it as shortcuts.
Everything seemed fine.
I had the idea that the desktop could be uncluttered by dragging the folders themselves, not the shortcuts, into that TLB folder. I deleted some shortcuts and dragged the actual folders themselves into the TLB folder.
Meanwhile, I was enjoying myself, reducing and simplifying - probably most here go through that - and moved several things around.
Somewhere in all that experimenting and cleaning up it came to me that I needed better access to certain folders within folders, and made some sort of change that was logically impossible - but I don't know what it was. The symptoms I've described.
EDIT: There is a possibility that one of the folders dragged into TLB had something in it that some app or system file depended on and then couldn't find. END EDIT
Once the desktop was back, I tried to reverse the things I'd done - one by one - but each step took minutes to complete. Eventually it got to a point where things settled down.
Right now everything's working, but I worry that something's potentially unstable. I can leave it alone, or start afresh.
The reason I don't simply uninstall and start over is that there are apps (not shortcuts) and folders (not links) down there, and though I use Mozy for a perfect backup that would be a LOT of work.
Last point: this might be one of the smartest software purchases I've ever made, if I can just get past this startup curve.
In retrospect: when I installed, there was point regarding plug-ins, and I think installation went past that step inadvertently absorbing ALL of them. I now see a l-o-n-g list... and don't know if they're integrated into TLB or accessible to it.
Trying to set up --- I created a folder in TLB, labeled it and changed its icon. I then dragged a couple of desktop folders into it as shortcuts.
Everything seemed fine.
I had the idea that the desktop could be uncluttered by dragging the folders themselves, not the shortcuts, into that TLB folder. I deleted some shortcuts and dragged the actual folders themselves into the TLB folder.
Meanwhile, I was enjoying myself, reducing and simplifying - probably most here go through that - and moved several things around.
Somewhere in all that experimenting and cleaning up it came to me that I needed better access to certain folders within folders, and made some sort of change that was logically impossible - but I don't know what it was. The symptoms I've described.
EDIT: There is a possibility that one of the folders dragged into TLB had something in it that some app or system file depended on and then couldn't find. END EDIT
Once the desktop was back, I tried to reverse the things I'd done - one by one - but each step took minutes to complete. Eventually it got to a point where things settled down.
Right now everything's working, but I worry that something's potentially unstable. I can leave it alone, or start afresh.
The reason I don't simply uninstall and start over is that there are apps (not shortcuts) and folders (not links) down there, and though I use Mozy for a perfect backup that would be a LOT of work.
Last point: this might be one of the smartest software purchases I've ever made, if I can just get past this startup curve.