All you have to do is click the sticky to activate the Stickies app and I can make changes again. I can also make it translucent so you can kind of see through the window a little bit if I want. You can easily grab a corner here to shrink it down to make it nice and small so it's not in the way. So I can stick it off in the corner and it will always be something on top of things. So now it floats on top so no matter what I do with Safari it's not going to be able to get on top of the sticky note. But I can select this window in Stickies and now I can select to have it put on top.
You can see Safari is covering these because they're regular windows. But not only that you can actually bring them to the front permanently. So you can kind of get it a little bit out of the way. In addition to be able to close a sticky you can also click this little button here and it shrinks down to just the title bar. But if I open it again, then they all come back and they remember their positions. Now, they are only there as long as Stickies is running.
These things float around on your screen.
You can even import text into it if you want. You've got a full set of editing tools so it's kind of like a little text editor. So you can have all different types of notes up there. So you can do fonts and change the color of the entire note. You can create little lists, you can put procedures you need to do everyday. But you can create your own by going into File, New note, and you get this little window with a little title bar there that you can move around. It gives you a couple samples to start off. Well, it simply simulates little sticky notes, or post it notes, that are on your desktop. It's an app that's on your Mac called Stickies. To be honest I completely forgot that they were even part of Mac OS. I doubt that you need to keep the old files on the desktop anywhere - at least not in OS X 10.5.8 which is what I'm using.Video Transcript: So here's a subject I haven't talked about in a long time. Deleting it and letting the program recreate it is probably what fixed the problem. The problem was likely that "" had become corrupted. The program is using the two new files it created - not the ones on the desktop. So I dragged the old files from the desktop to the trash and emptied it. THAT FIXED THE PROBLEM! Thanks!īut then I noticed that two new replacement files had been created in their original locations. I dragged both "StickiesDatabase" & "" to the desktop as suggested. The program created a new file in the original location and that gave me the program's two original instructional notes back - but new notes were still invisible. I found "StickiesDatabase" and dragged it to the trash. (I could see that they had been created by clicking on "window" in the menu bar.) Any new notes I created were invisible so I had no notes at all. As soon as I opened Stickies, I deleted the two default instructional notes that it presents. Just thought I would share what worked for me. I don’t pretend to understand how or why the solution works. If you only have one user, my solution to get the files off my desktop would require that you set up another user? I imagine this would overwrite any saved notes in my library, but in my case that was not an issue. I switched to another user and copied the same files and overwrote the current files in my user library and preferences folders. I didn’t like having these files on my new. Open a Sticky note and it should be on your screen. In the Library folder, select "Preferences" folder and find the file “”. Go to the Library and drag the file “StickiesDatabase” to your desktop.
Open Finder, in ‘Places’ select your user. I searched other forums and found this solution. From the Stickies Menu Bar, I can see the note was created by selecting the “Windows” menu item, but the note is nowhere to be seen on the desktop. I create a sticky note (Mac Sticky Note - not Widget sticky) and don’t see anything on the screen - no note is visible.