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jameshickie - Mar 30, 2005 - 5:26 am

Hi

I have just installed OSX 10.3.4 and everything seems to work fine apart from my Finder and desktop. The finder icon just doesn't open and my hard drive is not visable on the desktop. Can anyone help me?

Thanks

tubajensen - Mar 30, 2005 - 8:41 am

James,

in Finder go to the Preferences and under General in the menu bar choose which items you want to show up on your desktop.

Allan

PS. The only visible thing Finder does is to open a window with an overview of your computer.

jameshickie - Mar 30, 2005 - 9:00 am

Hi Allan

Thanks for your quick response.

My Finder will not open and therefore I can't go into the preference section. I have a message stating either "Finder not running" or "Finder not responding". I have tried to relaunch but the finder is not even visable in the force quit!

If you can help further that would be great.

Thanks

James

tubajensen - Mar 30, 2005 - 9:11 am

You could always try repairing permissions with Disk Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). Have you done that yet?

Allan

jameshickie - Mar 30, 2005 - 9:21 am

Allan

I can't open up Disk Utility as IO have to go through my applications - Word, Excel etc. I can't access my hard drive!!

And I have a message saying that my start up disc is nearly full but can't delete anything because I have no access to my hard drive!

I think I may have totalled the machine!!

Thanks

James

tubajensen - Mar 30, 2005 - 9:30 am

James,

I didn't think of that. Are there any apps in your dock you can open? Is the Terminal there? If so, you could try deleting some things using the command rm -rf "name-of-file-you-want-to-delete". Filling ones disk more than 90% is never good.
For the moment I'm doing a little research, there's an interesting thread here:

http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/sh...rue#Post651366

Allan

jameshickie - Mar 30, 2005 - 9:51 am

Allan

I can open up all my apps, including Internet explorer, which I am writing to you with. I don't know the command option you have suggested but it sounds good! What buttons do I need to press?

Thanks once agin for your help.

James

tubajensen - Mar 30, 2005 - 10:08 am

Press the Terminal icon (the little monitor with the > in the upper left corner). This should open a terminal window which on my machine looks like this:

Last login: Wed Mar 30 10:43:13 on ttyp0
Welcome to Darwin!
Allan-Jensens-Computer:~ ajensen$

After the $ sign you can type the command:

ls

and press the return button on your keyboard to list the files and folders in the present (your home) directory. To move in to folders you use the command:

cd name-of-folder

and press return. Once inside you can remove files using the command:

rm -rf name-of-file-to-remove

and press return. But be careful, if you make a mistake it can't be undone.

From here you can also try starting the Finder withe the command:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

and press return.

Allan