Hello everyone; I have quite an annoying problem that seems to refuse to be solved.
I'm running a 3 year old Macbook, 70GB HD, etc. Recently whilst trying to make an animated gif, I asked Quicktime to export a music video as an image sequence. However, I didn't realise until it had knocked out about 3500 image files that I should have only selected the part I wanted, and that it was clogging up my system making all these files. I cancelled the export, and tried to delete the files.
I couldn't even select them. Finder became unresponsive. I restarted, and when I re-entered my account, nothing showed up on my desktop. Only the background-- no files, no folders, no HD icon. I couldn't open finder either.
A couple of restarts later I can open a finder window (still nothing on the desktop) but I cannot access the desktop through that to delete the files. Just about everything else works- Safari, etc. I tried opening the offending 3,000 files to delete them somehow, but I can't find a way of deleting them in the 'open file' window of what ever I try (safari, preview...). Finder remains unresponsive or incredibly slow.
I need to delete these files to get my Macbook back, but I can't get at them in a way that will let me get rid of them! Does anybody here know how on earth to solve this? I'm going absolutely nuts. I really don't want to have to reinstall the OS as I can't back up files (thank you, finder!).
Thank you for your time and help!
I'm running a 3 year old Macbook, 70GB HD, etc. Recently whilst trying to make an animated gif, I asked Quicktime to export a music video as an image sequence. However, I didn't realise until it had knocked out about 3500 image files that I should have only selected the part I wanted, and that it was clogging up my system making all these files. I cancelled the export, and tried to delete the files.
I couldn't even select them. Finder became unresponsive. I restarted, and when I re-entered my account, nothing showed up on my desktop. Only the background-- no files, no folders, no HD icon. I couldn't open finder either.
A couple of restarts later I can open a finder window (still nothing on the desktop) but I cannot access the desktop through that to delete the files. Just about everything else works- Safari, etc. I tried opening the offending 3,000 files to delete them somehow, but I can't find a way of deleting them in the 'open file' window of what ever I try (safari, preview...). Finder remains unresponsive or incredibly slow.
I need to delete these files to get my Macbook back, but I can't get at them in a way that will let me get rid of them! Does anybody here know how on earth to solve this? I'm going absolutely nuts. I really don't want to have to reinstall the OS as I can't back up files (thank you, finder!).
Thank you for your time and help!