Yet another  prob ... Non-stop spinning ball after pic selection.

Chose my Docs page then a pic. Screen fixed. Couldn't use Force Quit. Finally found that by selecting Safari I got back the proper cursor and could use Force Quit but it didn't show the page I wished to quit. Finally relaunched Finder and found that it rid the screen of the fixation. However, in Finder I now have doubled entries of everything! Now what? I had none of this in Tiger ....
Really getting cheesed off.

HI Ron,
Try deleting this file. com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and restart.
Make sure you don't have any applications running when you do this, like Safari, or Word.
Carolyn

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