Serious Desktop Overload

Some help here would be great...
I tried today to transfer a Aperture Slideshow from my iMac to my Macbook Pro via firewire.
I read up how to do it and seemed to have everything set up right with Sharing - I was able to access the laptop in Finder on the desktop, but a box came up saying that I didn't have the right permissions.
So, to test whether I could transfer a basic file I dragged across a small Excel document to the laptop Desktop.
It was copied across to the laptop alright - just 31,000 times. YES 31,000 copies of an Excel document are now on my desktop!
As I am sure you can imagine, this has slowed down the laptop a wee bit!
It's totally slowed up so that any keystroke takes about 30 minutes to register. I only know that 31,000 copies went across because I accessed the laptop from the iMac and tried to delete them with no luck.
I have of course tried shutting down and restarting but to no avail. And also restarting pressing the space bar, but again no luck.
The good news is that I have recently bought the iMac so everything on the laptop is in the iMac and backed up to Time Machine, so if needs be I can wipe the laptop. But I'd rather not if possible.
Anyway, does anyone have any idea how I can fix this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Tom

Are you sure, you were in Target-Modus?
From the help menu "Transfer files between two computers":
Connect the two computers with a FireWire or Thunderbolt cable.
Start up the computer to be used as a disk in target disk mode:
If the computer is off, start it up while holding down the T key.
If the computer is on, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Startup Disk, and then click Target Disk Mode.
When the computer has started up, a disk icon appears on the desktop of the other computer.
Transfer files by dragging them to and from the disk.
Eject the disk by dragging its icon to the Trash.
While you drag, the Trash icon changes to an Eject icon.
On the computer you used as a disk, push the power button to shut it down, and then disconnect the cable.
If your computer is not reacting anymore: push the power button some seconds, until your computer is shutting down. Then restart the computer with the overpopulated desktop. Fire up your Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and enter (copy and paste):
rm ~/Desktop/*.xls
hit <enter> and you are done, hopefully. Two things could happen, if it is not working: the extension for an excel-file is not *.xls correct it to the right extension. Or you are not allowed to do this, because or permission problems. In this case you have to precede this command with sudo and enter your password (you will not see anything, but enter your password nevertheless and hit <enter>)
Hope this helps
marek

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> I am noticing some strange behaviour with the TCP Open Connection VI.
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> the default unwired state of 60000 ms) and giving an error after
> approx 1 second (Error 63: network connection refused).
>
> I dont actually have a listener waiting, but surely it should only
> give the error message after the timeout period is over? My question
> is not how to get it working, but rather why does this error occur
> after 1 s?
TCP/IP is a 3-way handshake protocol eventhough you do not see that on
the application level. You are most probably trying this out on a local
machine or a local network only. What happens in the TCP/IP socket
driver on the other side when you try
to connect is that it checks its
internal tables and then when no listener has been registered it sends
back a negative acknowledgment informing the requesting socket that no
connection could be established. This certainly is very fast and happens
in less than a second unless you are connected over a very slow dialup
line and trying to reach a similar slow remote site on the other side of
the world or have some serious network overload problems.
Once the socket receives the connection rejection message LabVIEW
correctly decides to not wait any longer and returns the error you see.
Rolf Kalbermatter
Rolf Kalbermatter
CIT Engineering Netherlands
a division of Test & Measurement Solutions

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Hi,
I have a question about the desktop for authlessanonymous.
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- Jim

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Something is seriously wrong with my install of CC desktop. The icon won't show up in the upper bar as it always has. When I start it from th finer it starts, but when I select the Apps tab is spins for a while and then quits. Tried re-installing it from Adobe downloads. Same behaviour. What's up?

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I overloaded my desktop with thousands of pictures and now I can't click on them to delete. What to do?

Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

If all or most of the files have a common extension, say "jpg" or "tiff", and no other file
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