I got it worked out. I am guessing that it took time for all those photos to load onto the desktop. Anyway, they ultimately did and I trashed them from the desktop. They had been copied to the desktop, not moved, so all appears to be just fine. On Dec 27, 2005, at 12:45 AM, Ward Oldham wrote:
> 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> > | 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>
