Problems deleting/moving files

Ok I'll try to explain this as clearly as I can...
Recently I got messages saying my memory was full.
So I decided to move a large amount of files to an external drive. I selected all the files I wanted to move and dragged them to my external drive.
When I was doing that, instead of landing in my drive, they ended up on my desktop. Which resulted into a freeze.
I rebooted my macbook to resolve that problem. Instead I got messages saying my memory is full. Which is what I was trying to resolve in the first place.
Now I can't remove files because my macbook keeps freezing on start up (cus it's trying to load my files on my desktop, for which it has not enough memory).
So I can't access finder to clear my memory because my memory is full.
I'm stuck in an endless loop of trying to clear memory...
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
I tried rebooting endlessly...
I even tried to do a recovery, but alas... Not enough memory available for that...

I have to disagree as Ive always been able to use it to do these functions, just not with the latest version. Do you mean to tell me that you should not be able to 'undo' delete as this is not in its function?!!

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