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no desktop icons and finder doesnt seem to work...please help
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1615289"><p>You probably powered down the computer while the drive was being written to, and subsequently corrupted the directory.</p><p></p><p>A couple of things you can try:</p><p></p><p>1. Boot the machine holding the command key and R at the same time. You will eventually arrive at the Recovery Partition. Use Disk Utility from there to repair the drive and repair disk permissions. If you're lucky, that will fix it.</p><p></p><p>2. If not, try booting into either the guest account or into safe mode (accomplished by holding SHIFT for a long time on bootup). See if either of those work normally.</p><p></p><p>3. If that doesn't work, let us know and we'll move into the more complicated options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1615289"] You probably powered down the computer while the drive was being written to, and subsequently corrupted the directory. A couple of things you can try: 1. Boot the machine holding the command key and R at the same time. You will eventually arrive at the Recovery Partition. Use Disk Utility from there to repair the drive and repair disk permissions. If you're lucky, that will fix it. 2. If not, try booting into either the guest account or into safe mode (accomplished by holding SHIFT for a long time on bootup). See if either of those work normally. 3. If that doesn't work, let us know and we'll move into the more complicated options. [/QUOTE]
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