Hey Joe, I've seen folk do this inadvertent sleight-of-hand before. If you have a bootable system on an external firewire hard drive, booting from that drive will make it dramatically easier to gather up the stray files and move them to their proper place.
Ward Oldham On Dec 27, 2005, at 12:38 AM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > Dratted iPhoto :( It's probably too late, but since you already did > a force quit, I would do a hard shut down with the power button...jf > > On Dec 26, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Joe Oldham wrote: > >> By mistake, I exported 500+ photos from iPhoto to my desktop. >> Something happened that caused me to attempt a force quit. The >> only thing running was the finder. So I hit relaunch the finder. >> Now it looks like the desktop is trying to get all of these photos >> onto it and that it is taking a long time, a really long time. I >> have OSX 10.3.9 on an iBook. Needless to say, I will never make >> that mistake again, but at this point I have the spinning pinwheel >> going off and on and the finder is useless. Any suggestions would >> be welcome. >> I wonder if I simply have to wait for all of these images to load >> onto the desktop and then I'll happily delete all of them. Thank >> you for your help. >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. >> | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
