MacBook Air :: PDF On Desktop Won't Open Or Go Into Trash
Apr 16, 2012
An icon appeared on my wife's Macbook Air desktop and she has no idea where it came from, what it is or how to get rid of it. It has a red and white "pdf" icon with the title Acr790289319801612880.tmp. Nothing happens when it's double clicked, or if she tries to open it under "File" then "Open." I changed the extension to .pdf and tried to open it, but no dice. If she drags it into the trash it makes the sound effect of dropping into the can but remains on the desktop and doesn't show up in the trash. How to get rid of it?
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Apr 24, 2009
this seems like a really simple thing i want to do but i cant seem to figure it out. All i'm trying to do is put a shortcut of the trash can onto the desktop. I have my dock hidden and it can be a pain to try and make it appear to delete something. i searched spotlight for trash and there are no hits. i try to drag the trashcan from the dock and nothing happens. There has to be a solution???
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Jun 20, 2012
I can't move any files on the desktop or put them in the trash.When I try to move the file it shows the circle with the loine through it. When I try to trash them it asks for a password, after I type it in it makes the typical trashing sound but it doesn't go into the trash. I am using lion.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 11, 2010
I've seen some posts where one or a couple of these problems have arisen but not all simultaneously. The trash is there somewhere because I can delete but only via finder. The dock however cannot be coaxed back into existence and I can't activate any of the desktop icons by clicking on them. I also can't minimise the windows - the red and green buttons work fine but the yellow (although there and blinks when clicked) doesn't have any effect.
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Apr 23, 2012
When I click on the Trash Can nothing happens. I was in it recently recovering a deleted document. Don't know where the trash caan is stored so I cannot find it manually. New MAC user. Also, having endless hangs and crashes trying to reorganize my 1.3TB of data stored on Seagate external drives.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 25, 2012
I've got a latest-gen MacBook Pro running on a fully-updated OSX Lion (last update check April 25, 2012).Â
For some time now, the Trash hasn't seemed to respond: when I click the Trash icon in the Dock, nothing happens (no window opens). When I right-click on it it shows me the normal menu, but when I click "Open", nothing happens; when I click "Empty Trash" nothing happens either (no progress bar even though the Trash must be rather full by now, no sound, the icon remains "full"). Â
Besides, when I close my MacBook Pro with iTunes running (even though no song is playing), when I open the Mac, it sometimes happens that the Finder stops responding. It usually goes back to normal if I quit iTunes.Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Trash, Finder
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Oct 6, 2010
the topic pretty much says it all. i put my mbp to sleep last night and this morning when i opened it to wake it up, i heard the trash sound go off, and i realized my counter strike source icon was missing. i opened the trash and their it was. strange...i don't know if it may have been some of the sites i've visited in the past that may have given me spyware or anything sketchy. anyone had this issue before?
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Apr 5, 2012
After updating to 10.7.3 I have noticed that Disk Utility no longer opens. It pops up into the utility bar for a few seconds, bobs up and down a couple of times, then disappears. The next time I click on Disk Utility I don't even get that much of a response. It just doesn't open. No error report, no pop ups saying that it can't be opened - Nada. I can't use disk utility AT ALL anymore. I've tried Zapping my PRAM, but that's about it.Â
The other thing I've noticed is that any time I put something into the Trash Bin it automatically tells me that it will delete the item - it doesn't sit in the trash bin like it used to until you manually delete it. The only time I can get it to behave normally is when I am using an external drive and I put something from the external drive into the trash bin.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 8, 2010
Any way to get a Trash on the desktop ? I hide the dock all time time and I hate having to drag my files down the screen to then move them to the trash.
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Nov 12, 2005
My phone calls and it's my (pc-centric) friend Kasper. He's on msn with his girlfriend in Switzerland and she's panicking. She's just accidentally moved her desktop (including everything on it off course) to the trash. She's also trashed Skype (might have been on desktop?!?). And now she can't move it back out again!Unfortunately I'm not the master of Macs that Kasper hopes and I've no idea what to do about this except try to restart. To calm his girlfriend down I've told him to tell her that I'll be back in 30 min. with expert advice from Macrumors... So, what advice should I pass on to him to her?
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Apr 4, 2012
I am trying to remove an item from my intel IMac desktop. I get the message - the item can't be moved to the trash because it can't be deleted.
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iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2
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Apr 25, 2012
And when I went to find the Lib plist file to delete it, I had no Library Folder in my user folder. This was repaired with Disk Utility. Aren't I supposed to have a Lib Folder in my User Fole
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 23, 2010
My Macbook, v.10.4.11 runs great except for one thing. When I double click on my hard drive icon, the finder briefly appears then disappears (just a split second) I cannot open the hard drive folder without it immediately closing. I can access material through another program, but can't go straight to my hard drive.
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Mar 12, 2012
I cant Open or run applications on my desktop. I can only open them by right clicking then click open.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 24, 2012
My finder does not open up to the Desktop and I cannot find items. Also, when I try to upload a photo in FB or other sites, I cannot find the iPhoto libraries to upload photos.
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MacBook Pro
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Jan 25, 2008
I somehow managed to do something really silly, I don't know how exactly I did it, but I had moved my desktop to the trash. So now it's sitting there in the trash. I don't dare do anything until I get some proper advice. Can I just drag it back to my home folder and clear the trash?
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Mar 19, 2012
When using Excel "microsoft Office" I find on my desktop files that I am unable to task, move or relocate. How can I clear my desktop?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Microsoft Office
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Jun 1, 2012
Is this bad? Just started happening yesterday. Restarted, but persistent... when I drag a file from an open folder on my desktop, the entire desktop flickers like you can see below. Like ghosted images of all the icons and open windows get scrambled around. It happens in a fraction of a second, but I was able to capture a screen shot. Please let me know what this means.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 3, 2010
I'm finding myself using spotlight for just about everything. One thing I've found that spotlight does not want to do by default, is open the trash folder.
Tried making a symbolic link of the ~/.Trash folder to the desktop, but spotlight could not find it.
So next I made a script to tell finder to open the trash folder, and saved it in my user directory. I name the script "trash", so now when I type "trash" in spotlight, it finds the script, which in turns tells finder to open the trash folder.
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Dec 12, 2010
Why is it that every time I open an application, skype for example, a new icon appears on my desktop? But it looks like a hard drive.
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Mar 1, 2012
I am a new Mac user, and everytime I open a file or document a link is put on my desktop. How can I turn this off. As one user put it it is very annoying.
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Sep 4, 2014
I was trying to open an existing Numbers document saved to my desktop. It took me to the App Store, but I didn't have access to a Wireless network. If it needed an update, why does it require the update to open an existing/previously saved document?Â
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
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Jun 20, 2012
Running a fairly new iMac with 10.7.4 and came home to find that the finder flashes, I can't access the trash and the files on the desktop disappeared. Haven't downloaded anything (and my kids also claim not to have).
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Dec 9, 2007
the trash icon in the dock won't open and I can't restore some files that I mistakenly deleted.
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Apr 14, 2010
you can rename, move or even trash a file when you still have it opened in preview or textedit.In win, such action will be stopped by the message "can't do that, the file is open somewhere". Would that data going to be kind of homeless or become a "ghost"?
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Apr 20, 2012
I have a document I do not recognize, cannot move, cannot trash and cannot open on my desktop. It appeared a few days ago. It is labelled 2CC4D500 and the icon is a Word icon.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 26, 2014
How do you delete individual items from Trash without emptying entire Trash? If I highlight one item in Trash, the only option is the Empty button. I'm afraid it will empty the whole thing. I don't want to do that.
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Sep 7, 2014
My "Trash" is not working. when i delete any file it doesn't appear in TRASH. Empty Trash option goes disappear. How can i recover my TRASH ?
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MacBoo Pro, iOS 7.1
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Jan 17, 2010
1. when i first startup my macbook the finder doesn't appear at the very top of the screen and my trash will not open as well.
i think this problem occured when i clicked force quit on finder and now i cannot retrieve finder. i am not a computer person so i don't know all the mac slang. any suggestions?
2. when i open safari it always asks for a password and anytime i search something it asks for the password again how do i turn this off?
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May 5, 2012
how do i recover files from trash after trash is emptied?'
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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