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Spinning wheel

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Joeymozzer

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Sep 20, 2012
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I was trying to move 12k pix from an external hard drive into a folder on my desktop so I could organize it. Somehow the files didn't save into the folder but all over my desktop. The Mac froze and Has the wheel spinning since last night. I tried rebooting but that didn't help. I can't close anything, at times the wheel stops and I can move the cursor around but can't open or close anything. Can't force quit, sometimes the screen shows my desktop files and other times it's blank with the spinning wheel still going.

I don't know if the pix are stored onto the ex hard drive or if they moved onto the Mac. Am I screwed?

I'm running the latest iOS (Yosemite)
 
By default in OS X when you drag and drop files from an external to the internal it copies rather than moves the files. So all your files should still be on the external.

Can you just unplug the external then reboot? What happens then?
 
First try activating Force Quit menu and quit the process that's not responding: Press Command + Option + esc

If that didn't work, you can do a force shutdown by pressing and hold down the power button(last resort as it might lead to data corruption)
 
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