Help! Desktop completely blank and finder not opening
Hello
I was using iTunes last night and went away to make a cup of coffee. When I went back to it, the screen was flickering all over the place and only stopped when I closed the lid down and re-opened it. The screen returned to normal, but when I closed down iTunes and then tried to do the same with Finder, the 'spinning wheel of death' cropped up. So I went into Forced Quit to try to shut them down altogether.
The shut down didn't work and since then the desktop has been completely blank. Also, although Finder is indicated as being open on the dock, the taskbar at the top is competely blank when I close all other applications down. I can open other applications (hence being able to get online here!) but when I try to close the computer down, nothing happens.
So to summarise...
Finder is not responding and will not let me close it down
The Computer will not close down at all
I can't get into a Finder window in order to delete things to free up memory.
HELP!!! To add to misery, it's a work laptop!!!
Thanks!
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
thanks for that.
Unfortunately i have next to no memory left to be able to download this. Have been trying to delete some files and music to make some room, but cannot do this without Finder (vicious circle!!)
any more options?!!
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