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<blockquote data-quote="M-L-D" data-source="post: 1632563" data-attributes="member: 337917">I'm new to the Mac-Forums.com and hope this is the appropriate place to ask my question. I was planing to take my mac to someone to check the Hard Drive. I copied pictures and documents to an external Hard Drive. In my haste I clicked on the picture folder in the Dock and tried to move it to the external Hard Drive. I released the mouse too soon and the whole folder of 10,000 or more pics was copied to my Desktop. I didn't know how to remove so many pictures quickly so I shut down everything and took the Mac to be checked. With my Mac back at home I opened the Finder and clicked on the &quot;Desktop&quot; folder and there are thousands of jpg and pictures. I tried to open the files and none will open and I get a message saying &quot;Mac OS X is using this file and can't open it.&quot; When I move these to the trash there is a message, &quot;Some of the items you are moving are in use by another application. Moving the item can cause problems with the application using them. Are you sure you want to move these items?&quot; &quot; STOP&quot; &quot;CONTINUE&quot; . I click Continue and nothing is put into the trash can. If I click on &quot;Get Info&quot; it shows Zero KB used on the Hard Drive. I checked my external Hard Drive and all my pictures are there. This is making my Mac very slow with the spinning wheel. I have been deleting the files by selecting a lot of them but I have to click the &quot;CONTINUE&quot; button for each item.Is there an easier way of deleting these files without having to click &quot;CONTINUE&quot; button thousands of times? Is it safe to delete all these files?While trying to find a way to remove these files I found a program &quot;Automator&quot;.I'm not sure how to use this program nor am I sure it will help delete this many files easily? Mac G5 OS X 10.5.8 Build 9L31a Dual 2.3 GHz Power PC G5Thank you so much for any help.Laura</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M-L-D, post: 1632563, member: 337917"] I'm new to the Mac-Forums.com and hope this is the appropriate place to ask my question. I was planing to take my mac to someone to check the Hard Drive. I copied pictures and documents to an external Hard Drive. In my haste I clicked on the picture folder in the Dock and tried to move it to the external Hard Drive. I released the mouse too soon and the whole folder of 10,000 or more pics was copied to my Desktop. I didn't know how to remove so many pictures quickly so I shut down everything and took the Mac to be checked. With my Mac back at home I opened the Finder and clicked on the "Desktop" folder and there are thousands of jpg and pictures. I tried to open the files and none will open and I get a message saying "Mac OS X is using this file and can't open it." When I move these to the trash there is a message, "Some of the items you are moving are in use by another application. Moving the item can cause problems with the application using them. Are you sure you want to move these items?" " STOP" "CONTINUE" . I click Continue and nothing is put into the trash can. If I click on "Get Info" it shows Zero KB used on the Hard Drive. I checked my external Hard Drive and all my pictures are there. This is making my Mac very slow with the spinning wheel. I have been deleting the files by selecting a lot of them but I have to click the "CONTINUE" button for each item. Is there an easier way of deleting these files without having to click "CONTINUE" button thousands of times? Is it safe to delete all these files? While trying to find a way to remove these files I found a program "Automator". I'm not sure how to use this program nor am I sure it will help delete this many files easily? Mac G5 OS X 10.5.8 Build 9L31a Dual 2.3 GHz Power PC G5 Thank you so much for any help. Laura [/QUOTE]

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