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My desktop is empty, except for the spinning beachball; ForceQuit shows Finder as "not responding." The Dock and all other programs are working fine.
I know what caused the problem: I inadvertently flooded my desktop by saving thousands of files onto it -- from Quicktime I chose "Save as JPG Sequence" for exporting a 5 minute video clip (I'm trying to export a Flash animation in a state that will load onto YouTube, and have been trying everything! Had no idea this option was going to create thousands of separate files).
So anyway, I need to delete these thousands of files from my desktop, and then (I hope) everything will be fine. Thing is, I don't know how to get at them to delete them. There's got to be an easy way...I can see the files when I go into other programs and choose "Open" and navigate to the desktop.
Advice please. Thanks!

I was excited to see this response because it sounded like the solution I needed. But it didn't work. We're running 10.4.11. My husband tried to copy more than several hundred jpg files to the finder by accident. When he realized what was happening, he canceled the action (he THINKS he canceled it before 150 files could have been copied, but he can't be sure). Now his hard disk icon does not appear on the desktop, though it does appear in a strange new window (along with a Network icon). He CAN access files and applications, and even run several applications, but can't get the hard disk back on the desktop.
I followed the instructions referred to here, but when I ran the script, I got this error message:
mv: rename (Users/usersname/Desktop/*.jpg to /Users/usersname/Desktop/DesktopItems/*.jpg: No such file or directory. (I've replaced his name with "username" in the above.) A DesktopItems folder did get created on the desktop, but it's empty.
Other things I've tried: Starting up from the installation disk and running Disk Utility to repair permissions and Repair disk (it needed no repair) and reset the startup disk; reinstalling OS 10.4.6 and then upgrading to 10.4.11; used Onyx to verify the disk (it says it's okay).
One other weirdness has started -- his Logitech wireless keyboard seems to have loss some of its key mapping. The Alt (Command) key is acting like the Start (Option) key and vice versa. But this might not have anything to do with the big problem of a malfunctioning Finder.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

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