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I put 3000 files on my desktop and finder crashes at login. Help!
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I am set to auto login. I was moving some .jpg files from my digital camera folder and somehow ended up dropping them on the desktop. Now the finder is completly locked up trying to sort or copy the files to the desktop. I can get the terminal to load but what command would I use to move the .jpg files back to the correct location? They all have generic icons like they haven't fully copied over before the finder crashes.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by FunandBlindness:
I am set to auto login. I was moving some .jpg files from my digital camera folder and somehow ended up dropping them on the desktop. Now the finder is completly locked up trying to sort or copy the files to the desktop. I can get the terminal to load but what command would I use to move the .jpg files back to the correct location? They all have generic icons like they haven't fully copied over before the finder crashes.
cd Desktop
mkdir images
mv *.jpg images
This will create a directory called "images" on your dekstop, and place all of the jpg files in there. At that point you can do whatever you like with them.
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Thank you so much! What a mess that was.
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OK, so I've done the same but I can't get the terminal to load as I don't have it in the dock, and the finder is all locked up. Any ideas?
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Boot into single user mode
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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can you explain how to do that? Thanks!
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restart holding command-s I believe
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Cool. Didn't need to do that in the end. I used iView Media as a kind of alternative finder and copied the photos to another folder.
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whats the command to start the aqua gui once you're insingle user mode?
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"exit" also works
Originally posted by ZackS:
logout
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Change your world and you will change your mind.
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umm, booting into single user mode is not needed or recommended.
you should just type >console at the login screen and you'll sent to the console.
btw, has anyone noticed that with Fast User Switching you can't login to the >console while you have another user logged in?
-justin
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Originally posted by Some Guy []:
umm, booting into single user mode is not needed or recommended.
you should just type >console at the login screen and you'll sent to the console.
btw, has anyone noticed that with Fast User Switching you can't login to the >console while you have another user logged in?
-justin
Except he is set to auto-login. And sometimes when the Finder freezes, you can't logout.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally posted by Some Guy []:
umm, booting into single user mode is not needed or recommended.
you should just type >console at the login screen and you'll sent to the console.
btw, has anyone noticed that with Fast User Switching you can't login to the >console while you have another user logged in?
-justin
What's wrong with booting into single-user mode? 
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Originally posted by snerdini:
What's wrong with booting into single-user mode?
its not recommended because most people would not know what the hell to do with themselves once there, and would probably break something. If you are already comfortable with CLI, don't worry about it.
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It's very difficult to break anything in single user mode unless you know to type "mount -uw /" first so your hard drive is mounted read/write.
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You can't eat all those hamburgers, you hear me you ridiculous man?
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Senior User
Join Date: Apr 2000
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Originally posted by qnxde:
It's very difficult to break anything in single user mode unless you know to type "mount -uw /" first so your hard drive is mounted read/write.
Of course, usually you're in single user mode because you have to fix something on said hard drive, so the first thing you'll do is exactly that.
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