I have an eMac with a PPC G4 processer. 1GB ram, using Mac OSX 10.4.11.
recently I tried to split a Youtube video clip into 2 segments. Unfortunately I input the wrong instructions and ended up with over 3700 4kb files on my desktop. Totally overloaded.
Is there any way I can delete these 3700 files without trashing other needed files on my desktop?
I want to keep my school files on desktop two so they are all in the same place, and use desktop one as a place to perhaps save photos or other files not school related. When I swipe between desktops, the school files move between the desktops as I swipe but I want to keep them on one desktop all the time.
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Mac Pro, iOS 5.0.1
iMac > Intel Core 2 Duo > 2 GHz
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
When I open, "Users > user myname, I find files with names such as ;
G%C6u%ACX%B7%EA4%99%88%FF%E8
or
%FDpot%CB0J
There 45 of them.
the ones I opened are empty TextEdit files.
What are they and can I delete them?
Deleting all Safari's favicons often seems to speed up Safari 5.0.6 (in OS X 10.5.8 on a late-2008 Intel MacBook Pro), but it slows me down when I use long Bookmarks lists with generic-looking entries. I've read that Safari saves a favicon for every site it visits (if it finds one)! My webpageIcons.db file is 9.8 MB now (versus 156 KB for Bookmarks.plist and 788 KB for HistoryIndex.sk). Is there an efficient way to save just the favicons my Bookmarks lists use, and delete all the others? Wouldn't this speed up Safari almost as much as deleting them all?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8), Safari 5.0.6
i was trying to access some info on 70 or so microsoft word files and opened them in pages. realizing i should of just used spotlight ( which i have done to get what i needed) ... my problem is now i can't use pages as it has locked up. i can't close the open window's and get to work.
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pages on imac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Inadvertently added 1000s of jpg files to desktop .imac grinding to a halt! How do I easily delete all files off desktop?
Info:iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
I was working on a file in GarageBand, I saved the .band file on my desktop, but after I quit GarageBand without saving the work, the .band file went a little weird. I tried dragging it to the trash and cmd-delete it but the message came up saying "The item Recording Final.band be moved to the Trash because it cant be deleted." Later I launched GarageBand again, and when I tried to drag the weird .band file from desktop to the GarageBand icon on my dock, the dock appears to crash, my wallpaper went gray for a second and then the dock came back up. Also when I select the file and hit space bar to do a quick look it shows up saying No Items Selected. I like to keep my desktop tidy don't want these files here blocking the way.
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am having a problem accessing any files on my desktop. I cannot delete, edit or move files there. I have rebooted and repaired permissions using disk utility. When trying to perform any task with files on the desktop, the icon freezes and gets 'stuck' to the mouse and prevents me from performing other tasks. It also prevents shut down (have to hard shut down with the power key).Current permissions for the Desktop folder are drwx
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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I recently discovered, after running Disk Inventory X, some really fat files in my Library. I haven't touched them, as I read on another forum that it could be dangerous but is there anything I can do to get rid of them? I thought maybe they were left there after a recent Time Machine backup because I read that happening to someone else in another forum...
I've attached screenshots (I think) of the two biggest files.
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iMac
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Clicking "Continue" doesn't actually delete the file....dragging and dropping the file into the trash also does nothing.
Why does my mac stop downloading files, copying to clipboard, saving files to desktop, etc?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.4.5)
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Info:Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MAC MIN SERVER
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the only player i have is iTunes and it is off.
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I cannot delete my ICloud account from Mail...It keeps returning.
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imac
