Hi Bill, I would think you had caused some corruption in Finder. When you are unable to open any files or folders in Finder, often moving the com.apple.finder.plist file found in (your user)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist to the desktop then, Relaunch your Finder. -->Force Quit-->Finder-->Relaunch fixes the problem.
But, keeping your desktop clean is the best solution. Cheers, Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPad On 09/06/2012, at 6:23 PM, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > Yesterday I placed everything on my chaotic desktop into one folder to get > some space to do something. > > I did some work and later I tried to get access to the "clear-up" folder but > with no success. My HD icon resides on the desktop as does my download > target folder. None would open. I could get to the files in needed in the > "clear-up" folders by doing a search and opening that way, or by looking at > Word's recent files. > > I shut the machine down. All was well and still is. But what was happening? > > MBP 10.6.8 > > Bill > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
