I accidentally transferred all my files onto my desktop and now it won't let me do anything.
WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.
I accidently transferred all my files onto the desktop (I missed the folder it was supposed to go into) and now my iMac is frozen after about a minute of starting up.
It freezes too quickly for me to be able to transfer all the files back.
So now there are 5961 items on my desktop.
What can I do!?
#1 reason to keep a backup. Human error!
Try booting in safe mode with the shift key.
Wait for all the icons to appear and go to the Finder menu -> New Finder window.
Navigate to your desktop folder in the Finder window, and Use View menu -> View by icon, and arrange by type.
Move any applications back into your Applications folder.
Create an untitled folder on your desktop. Drag the rest of the items in the desktop folder to the untitles folder by doing a select all, and command-click the untitled folder, and then drag those items into the untitled folder.
Then you should be able to reboot normally and cleanup the untitled folder.
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 15:24:39 -0700
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Subject: I bought Cool Edit Pro v. 2 many yrs ago. loaded onto new PC and now it won't work
Re: I bought Cool Edit Pro v. 2 many yrs ago. loaded onto new PC and now it won't work
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