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I Locked up finder and my desktop
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May 17, 2005, 09:30 PM
 
Hello everyone,
I was exporting some video as single frames out of final cut last night and I accidently put them on my desktop. There are over 500 single frame jpegs jamming up my system, I can't get to my HD, finder, or anything--the ball just sits and spin's. I can use this web browser and other apps, but not get to my disk. WTF should I do? I really dont want to have to format my laptop. I run 10.4.1 on a 17" 1.5 ghz PB. Please, any help?
     
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May 17, 2005, 11:12 PM
 
Have you tried relaunching the Finder?
Bring up Force Quit via Command+Option+ESC.

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MAJ
     
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May 17, 2005, 11:55 PM
 

This was the most obvious thing I could think of. No it did not work. It just hangs, I have to pull the battery to get it to shut down....
     
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May 18, 2005, 05:15 AM
 
Turn on Remote Login in Sharing Prefs, then login in via SSH form another machine and mv the files.
     
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May 18, 2005, 09:53 PM
 
I dont have another machine to do this from. Well I do but they all run windows XP SP 2. How do I get in via SSH? Can I remote desktop to this machine?
     
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May 18, 2005, 10:39 PM
 
Search for "Putty" in google and use that to SSH in from a win box
     
   
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