I just replaced the original 750GB drive on my MacBook Pro with a SanDisk SD6SB2M512G1022I SSD. It's much faster, and I still have tons of open space.
But every once in a while the desktop folder icons disappear and then reappear. What could be causing this? Is there something wrong with the drive? Could the copying process have corrupted something in Mavericks?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
I Fired up my computer this morning and the icons disappeared, also the applications folder. I rebooted. Same thing. Rebooted again. random icons appear, never the app folder. Rebooted. The trash can icon is broken apart and scattered along the dock. No other icons. What should I do?
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), late 2008
They're still accessible through finder, but now I can't drag-and-drop anything (at all) to the desktop. It was fine a minute ago before I shut down and rebooted my laptop. Restarts and switching users does nothing. I'm using Mac OSX Lion 10.7.4.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Anyone come across a problem where all the desktop icons disappear? I also cannot right click on my desktop to bring up a contextual menu, my machine appears to be running faultlessly apart from that. I have run Onyx to reset permissions and have checked the disk but cannot seem to find anything wrong.
Running OSX 10.10 on a quad core 2.66 Mac Pro.
The computer was working fine before the update. Now, it blinks the active screen when I try to load anything. I can't use my softwares or browse on network.
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), Latest update with Safari 7.0.6
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I've got an external HD hooked up to my iMac and it has some software on there that brings up a CD icon on the desktop.
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