Macbook desktop freezes

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freeloader

macrumors newbie

Original poster

Feb 8, 2008

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• Apr 20, 2008

• #1

Hi All!

For some random reason my MacBook desktop decides to freeze up!

i cannot place any files on the desktop, i can not open any either including my HD icon....

Can someone please assist me or give me any advice on how to solve this problem.

I would really appreciate it

Thank You in Advance

 

karenflower

macrumors 6502a

Dec 7, 2007

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• Apr 20, 2008

• #2

It sounds like Finder may have crashed. . does a restart help?

 

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freeloader

macrumors newbie

Original poster

Feb 8, 2008

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London

• Apr 21, 2008

• #3

karenflower said:

It sounds like Finder may have crashed. . does a restart help?

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one thing i forgot to do was to RESTART (blush). I did that and its working fine! Thanks

I don't know why I didn't think to do that! hahaha

 

IIeBoy

macrumors member

Feb 26, 2009

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• Apr 23, 2009

• #4

I have the same issue and although you can restart Finder to cure it, it does occur again and again. I have a new Macbook Pro. I have seen it reported elsewhere too, but no fix mentioned. Any ideas? Thanks.

 

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coolaas

macrumors newbie

Mar 23, 2011

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• Mar 23, 2011

• #5

I have a MacBook Pro with 10.5.8 and have the same problem (I think since I started using TimeMachine). I found that relaunching Finder will do the trick as well (restarting takes so long...)