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What I've actually discovered with the portal fence is that it will allow me to place a new icon that I drag to it in any position. However, sometime later (not immediately), if I go back to the portal fence it will have resorted by name, even though no sort method is specified. I can also refresh after moving an icon and it will go update the name-based sort. Since I don't want icons sorted by name in all cases, I will probably only use a portal fence for a situation where I don't care about

My fence portals seem to be behaving completely differently than how you've described. They are letting me place icons anywhere I want in the portal, allowing me to have them in the sequence I wish. Oh, well. I'll try it for a while and see how things go. I'm hoping that since so many icons will now be in folders that they are safe from any desktop tragedies.

Other things I've noticed: Dragging icons into the fence portal doesn't auto-update the fence portal based on the defined sort order. I also cannot get the fence portal to display the folder name. In fact, I can't even get the icon to grab the fence portal and drag it. It seems to be treating it just a shortcut to a folder instead of a fence. What a mess I'm in.

There seems to be a catch to this: if I create a fence portal, it won't me move an object out of that fence portal to a regular. It will only allow me to move it to the Desktop proper.

To clarify, I am on Fences 6. Holding the click and drag seems to be working now. I think part of the current issue that there are so many icons squeezed onto my desktop space that it's really bogging down the ability to work with the desktop. Every time I try to move one where it should be the others are start moving to update their relative position. I guess I could just turn off Auto-Arrange icons for now.

I tried to do this with a test folder, but my folders in Explorer do not have either the Show More Options ability or the Show This Folder On Desktop with the Fences icon. Do I need to enable something in Fences for this to work?

That is really cool. If it will help prevent things like I'm experiencing now I will definitely do it. Is there a method to change an existing Fence into a Folder Fence?

[quote who="basj" reply="7" id="3982509"] I am sorry, I wish I can be more helpful on this one. I know its hard to organize hundreds of icons. I would like to recommend moving forward, that you move your icons/documents into actual folders and create a Folder portal Fences instead. This way it should not get easily move around or drop off from its Fences. Thank you, Basj, Stardock Community Assistant [/quote] That seems like a good suggestion, but

[quote who="basj" reply="5" id="3982496"] At this point, the most practical way forward might be to manually reorganize the icons back into their respective Fences. [/quote] I was afraid that might be the answer. That's going to be painful. There are few hundred that I had organized into a dozen different Fences by specific order. And now I also see that from trying the copy from Desktop to Desktop with OneDrive paused that I have copies of icons on my desktop. It's no

[quote who="basj" reply="3" id="3982492"] Hello, Sorry to hear you're having issues. It's possible something got corrupted during the power failure. Was Fences 6 newly installed? If not, you should still have some saved layouts within Fences 6 itself. I'm not quite sure why you'd need to rely on older Fences 5 backups. Also, this might be related to OneDrive desktop sync being turned on unexpectedly—especially if it was off before. When that happens, icons oft

I see there's a Fences subforum. I will move this topic there.

Is this the right place to open tech support issues?

A power outage caused my system to restart. Now my Fences only have a few of the icons they originally had, and the rest are spewed all over the desktop. I have no idea which icons were in which Fence or what order I had them in my Fences. I've tried to use the Restore feature I used successfully in Fences 5. However, I'm encountering a couple of issues: 1) Every time I click Layout in the Fences configuration, I get a popup message that reads, "You've been upgraded! We'