You'll discover a fair number of "hidden" things, and their keyboard shortcuts. Then press the Control key, finally press the Shift key. You might want to try experiment with menus: click on the File menu and press the Option key and you'll see various items in the menu change to something else, eg in the File menu Close Window becomes Close All. The modifier keys are Control, Option, Command.
The "right click" is actually Control click, a different thing altogether. The secret to that is hold down the Option key on the keyboard and, while continuing to hold it down, press and hold the mouse button on the Finder icon in the Dock-you get the Relaunch selection. If you had succeeded in relaunching the Finder it would have created a new Desktop immediately. By renaming the cripplingly over-loaded Desktop folder to OldDesktop it became a perfectly ordinary folder which the Finder had no difficulty with. So the "move" command is "mv" and you can use it to move an item from one place to another or rename something. If there isn't then a new one will be created by the Finder automatically, although you need to restart the Finder or log out and back in.Ĭontrary to popular belief UNIX geeks don't like to type a lot of stuff, so all the commands you can issue are abbreviated and, as in this case, are made to be as versatile as possible. There must ALWAYS be a Desktop folder in your home directory. 😉įirst, the problem is that the Desktop is both a folder, which can contain items like any other folder, and a special Finder entity with certain odd behaviors (you just accidently discovered one of them). Hi Marcus-Let me see if I can make it clear, or at least clearer.
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Every one of those items is treated as its own window, and invisibly creating too many invisible windows brings the Finder to its knees. It is a result of the way the Finder handles items on the Desktop (plus some stuff in the menu bar). If you have a second admin user you can restart and login to that user and do all the stuff required to manipulate files in the affected account, no doubt thoroughly goofing up permissions along the way! But it can be done.įinally, I think this is the most shameful of the many defects in Finder. You can start in single user mode, mount the drive and use the command line from there to create the OldDesktop folder. How long you have to wait depends on how many files you dumped on the Desktop, and how powerful your machine is. If you wait long enough the Finder will revive and you can move the files into another folder. Hit return, then option click the Finder in the Dock and choose relaunch. If you keep Terminal in your Dock you can just click on it to launch it and type It is just the easiest way I've seen, especially if you can get the Service to work.įor instance, if you have another Mac you can start the problem machine in Firewire target mode, hook it up to the other Mac, navigate to the Desktop and move all the stuff into another folder.
This isn't the only way-there are a number of ways to do this, it all depends on what you've got available.
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