How do I align icons in Workbench 1.3?

[Nostromo]

I have an Amiga 500 with a Hard Drive with Workbench 1.3 installed.

I am doing clean up/snapshot to align the icons, which works, until you close and re open the window, as the icons are messed up again

How do I fix this please, it is driving me crazzzzy!

[PeterK]

I'm not sure anymore, because I didn't use 1.3 for the last 20 years, but you could try this:

Hold the Shift key down and ...
Select All
Free Position
Clean Up
SnapShot
release the Shift key

[Nostromo]

Hmm there is no Select All

[PeterK]

Ok, then click on the icons while you hold the Shift key down
and don't release it before SnapShot is finished

Btw, are your icons, the #?.info files, writable, is the W flag set ?

[Nostromo]

Still no luck

[PeterK]

Sorry, maybe I don't remember the 1.3 procedure correctly anymore ?

Did you check the W flag of the icons ?

2.2.4 Multiple selection
You can select more than one icon at a time. To do this, click on the first icon, press the SHIFT key
down (either one) and then click on the second, third, fourth icons etc to select multiple icons
You can also select a whole group of icons by pressing the LMB at the top left of the icons and
while keeping the LMB down moving the power towards the bottom right. A expanding box will apear
and the icons in it will be selected.

[Nostromo]

I dont think I have to select icons to make them 'snapshot'? Just the window?

[PeterK]

No, I think you really have to select the icons on WB 1.3 before you click SnapShot.

1.3 Special Menu
1.3.1 Cleanup
This option rearranges icons on a drawer or disk into a less cluttered state. To use, open the
window to rearrange and select Cleanup. To keep the icons in the new positions, select all the
icons and select 'Snapshot'.

1.3.4 Snapshot
This option allows you to save the position of an icon on a disk or a drawer. To use, select the icon,
drag the icon to its new location and Snapshot it.

[Nostromo]

Ah yes, worked now Thanks!

[klx300r]

love bringing back old thread that helped me out just to say 'thanks!'

[Photon]

Indeed, this was the trick. Now to find a commodity or menu hack that gives you Clean Up + Select All + Snapshot under 1.3

There is actually a way to do the whole "harddisk", if you do some scripting and piping to noIconPos (on a Fish disk). This removes the saved positions so that AmigaDOS 1.3 arranges them automatically (until you position them manually + select + snapshot again).