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Missing Dock Picture Folder / Copied Photos to Desktop
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<blockquote data-quote="cradom" data-source="post: 1638511" data-attributes="member: 305283"><p>Ok, gonna break it down for you...</p><p>cd means 'change directory', in this case "~"=your user folder /Desktop=the Desktop folder.</p><p>rm = remove</p><p>-rf are "switches" the r = recursive or remove any files in folders lower than the one you're in.</p><p>f = force, means don't give a dialog for each file "Are You Sure?"</p><p>* is a wildcard</p><p>*.* means everything with a period in the filename.</p><p>*.jpg means any file ending in ".jpg". This is safer because it wont delete anything BUT files ending in .jpg</p><p></p><p>The reason you're getting the "files in use" dialog is probably because Finder is reading them to display icons on the Desktop. This is one reason to not keep anything on the Desktop although with faster computers this is not so much a problem anymore. (except in cases such as yours where there are a s**tload of files.)</p><p>Try hitting Stop. Hopefully it'll quit.</p><p>Your hard drive is not in the Desktop folder. Deleting everything in the folder will not delete the drive.</p><p></p><p>Edit: all the switches for rm can be found by typing 'man rm' without the quotes in Terminal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cradom, post: 1638511, member: 305283"] Ok, gonna break it down for you... cd means 'change directory', in this case "~"=your user folder /Desktop=the Desktop folder. rm = remove -rf are "switches" the r = recursive or remove any files in folders lower than the one you're in. f = force, means don't give a dialog for each file "Are You Sure?" * is a wildcard *.* means everything with a period in the filename. *.jpg means any file ending in ".jpg". This is safer because it wont delete anything BUT files ending in .jpg The reason you're getting the "files in use" dialog is probably because Finder is reading them to display icons on the Desktop. This is one reason to not keep anything on the Desktop although with faster computers this is not so much a problem anymore. (except in cases such as yours where there are a s**tload of files.) Try hitting Stop. Hopefully it'll quit. Your hard drive is not in the Desktop folder. Deleting everything in the folder will not delete the drive. Edit: all the switches for rm can be found by typing 'man rm' without the quotes in Terminal. [/QUOTE]
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