All icons on desktops keep flashing
I have a 500GB transcend external hard drive. It used to work totally fine with Mac OS X Snow Leopard until a few days ago. When I plugged the hard drive in, all icons on desktop keep flashing every 3 seconds. When I open my hard drive, it disappeared automatically after the flash. I thought it might be a problem with my hard drive, but it works fine with when I plug into Windows 7. So, it must be the OS X that caused this problem. Please help!
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3411
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You should really read the manual.
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Recently been having issues with my desktop. All my icons are broken, the links and actually shortcuts are fine but all my icons show up corupt and it doesn't matter if i create new icons or not, they all break..
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I was wondering if i could get some help in sorting out and fixing my problem, at current i have most my prgrams pinned to my tool bar where they haven't been affected but i'd really rather have them on my desktop for easy access.
thanksIt's time you told us what you've tried. No point in spinning our wheels here. For instance, you didn't tell us what happens in another account.
Other account? I only have one account on this laptop, mine. the other one isn't really an account, it's an anti identity theft dummy that eset 8 created incase i'm out in public and someone swipes my laptop
and as far as tried.
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Scanned the folder files with windows fixit to fix the issue: failed fixit couldn't find it
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Scanned with Viper rescue scanner. Failed Viper can't find or fix it
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