Finder and Harddrive not working

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Hoohaa93

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I have a Mac OS X version 10.5.2

Yesterday I was sharing networks with my families home computer and started to copy picture files onto my macbook. It said to copy all of the files it would take about 2 hours. So I let my macbook do its thing, and went to go look at it 5 hours later. It said it had copied about 4000 pictures (those were all that I wanted to copy), but it wasn't even halfway completed, it still had 2 hours left, and the loading bar hadn't moved in forever.

So I tried to just press the "x" to stop copying, but it wouldn't go away. I tried to restart my computer, but the macbook said it couldn't until the thing had finished copying. I did a "command-alt-esc" and since the only option on there was my Finder, i ended that. The toolbar at the top disappeared, but my dock at the bottom was still there. When I went to turn off my computer, it the screen wouldn't go black. I think I must have damaged my system when I forced quit the Finder, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

Now I can't see my Hard Drive icon, and I can't into my Finder folder. I can't log off my user name ( I tried making another one to log into, but it wont let me) and I can't turn my computer off without taking the battery out. What do I do?

Thank you
-Annie
starr3989@aol.com
 
Have You Tried The Old 3 Finger Salute?--press And Hold The "comm" + Opt + P & R Keys At Startup? Hold Them Til You Have Heaard 3 Separate Chimes From Your Computor And Then Release For The Restart. Good Luck !
Dickster------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
'So I tried to just press the "x" to stop copying, but it wouldn't go away' - that is because MacOS X launches 'ditto' to do the copying. To kill 'ditto', launch 'Activity Monitor' (in the '/Applications/Utilities/' folder), select 'ditto', and click the 'Quit Process' toolbar icon button. A drop down sheet will appear. Click on the 'Force Quit' button.

'The toolbar at the top disappeared, ...' - do you mean that the 'menu bar' disappeared? If so, this is a normal 'shutdown' process result.

'... and I can't [see] into my Finder folder.' - there is no such item called a 'Finder' folder; unless - you created a folder (somewhere) and titled it 'Finder'. Is that what you did?

Not mentioned was the type of network used to (attempt to) copy the files.

Network types:
Wired Ethernet (directly, or via a switch or router),
Wireless Ethernet (802.11?, where '?' is 'a', 'b', 'g', or 'n'), or
FireWire.

Nor specified was 'my families home computer's make and model number, and operating system.
 
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