How do i place icons on my desktop?

[derthballs]

I accidently deleted the default icons for my computer on the desktop, and have deleted them from the trash folder, how do i put shortcuts to my documents on the mac?

 

[Jaffa Cake]

You could try taking a look in your Finder Preferences (Menu Bar/Finder/Preferences) and making sure that you have 'Show these items on the Desktop' ticked?

 

[thedude110]

If you want to make a shortcut, control click (right click) and choose "Make Alias." Then drag the .alias file to the desktop. You can do the same thing with an application.

And there's always copy/paste, too.

 

[mkrishnan]

I accidently deleted the default icons for my computer on the desktop, and have deleted them from the trash folder, how do i put shortcuts to my documents on the mac?

Default icons? Hmmm...I don't think there is a default icon for documents.

This is what you can do:

1) For icons for disks and volumes and so on, go to the Finder Menu -> Preferences and then the first tab.

2) For everything else -- for instance, if you want a link to your documents folder on the desktop -- navigate to it in Finder, click on it, select File -> Make Alias from the menus, and then drag the alias wherever you want it (e.g. desktop). You can also rename the alias if you want to.

 

[derthballs]

If you want to make a shortcut, control click (right click) and choose "Make Alias." Then drag the .alias file to the desktop. You can do the same thing with an application.

And there's always copy/paste, too.

excellent i wasnt sure what alias was - ill give that a try, thanks