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Equipment & Techniques => Computers & Peripherals => Topic started by: petermarrek on April 19, 2012, 01:29:54 pm
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Was trying to move some files to another hard drive, accidentally hit select all and dropped them (3728) on the desktop by mistake which is now covered with icons and locked up my computer. I have restarted it several times, nothing. Help, Peter
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No idea but next time, File>Undo or CMD+Z before doing anything else. Files will be sent back to their original location.
Now, if you moved your 3000+ files to the desktop, did they come from the same folder? In that case, it would be relatively easy to drag them back - provided you remember (folder) where they came from.
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Well you can try rebooting and holding down Command Option P key and R key all at the same time after the tone. Keep them held down until you hear the start up sound again. You just zapped the Pram, which might get you back rebooting.
If not, reboot again.
1. Restart the computer holding down both the Command key and the S key.
2. After lots of text appears on the screen, type "fsck -y" (no quotes) and hit return.
3. The system will write some messages on the screen. If it says that the volume was fixed or changed, redo step #2.
4. When you get the message that the system is OK, you can either type "halt" to shut it down completely, or "reboot" to start it back up again. shutdown -n now
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If you have another Mac and a portable FW hard drive you can install a bootable copy of Mac OSX onto the hard drive then force your machine to boot from that drive. After that you can go in and put the files back where they belong or move them to a new folder off the desktop. Hold down Option-Command-Shift-Delete when booting a PwrPC Mac or hold down Option when starting an Intel Mac. Use a wired keyboard and mouse.
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Peter,
I missed the "locked up computer" issue… If you are on Mac OS X 10.7, you can try to use the recovery partition to boot your Mac (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718) (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718) and then go either in the Terminal or the Disk Utility application. If you're running a previous version of Mac OS X, then follow Andrew's advice (boot in single user mode).
Booting from another HD is also a good solution.
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Problem solved. Since most of the files contained no data , I moved them to the trash and deleted them. It took almost an hour but everything is back in order. Thank you to those who tried to help, Peter