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Desktop Gone after 8000 Images Dropped on Desktop!
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<blockquote data-quote="Firehammer" data-source="post: 1173046" data-attributes="member: 188177"><p>They are straight from a camera. No application is running but Finder. </p><p><strong>More info:</strong> Thinking it was a permissions thing, I booted from the Mac OSX DVD and repaired permissions, rebooted but no change. </p><p>If I try and open or move any of the 8000 jpg files on the desktop it tells me it can't be opened or moved because another program is using it.</p><p>I used Terminal to move one of the desktop jpg files to an external drive and it moved! But when I try to open it from the external drive I get "Item [filename] is used by Mac OS X and cannot be opened. </p><p></p><p>Thank you for giving this issue some thought and energy! I figure I'll find the answer here if anywhere.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Firehammer, post: 1173046, member: 188177"] They are straight from a camera. No application is running but Finder. [B]More info:[/B] Thinking it was a permissions thing, I booted from the Mac OSX DVD and repaired permissions, rebooted but no change. If I try and open or move any of the 8000 jpg files on the desktop it tells me it can't be opened or moved because another program is using it. I used Terminal to move one of the desktop jpg files to an external drive and it moved! But when I try to open it from the external drive I get "Item [filename] is used by Mac OS X and cannot be opened. Thank you for giving this issue some thought and energy! I figure I'll find the answer here if anywhere. [/QUOTE]
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