OK you know how there is a difference between the desktop in your finder and your background? My background always stays clear unless I insert a disk or something. If I take a screenshot it goes to my finder window in the desktop section-not my background. My computer froze half an hour ago and when I restarted it, this changed.
Now if I take a screenshot the file shows up on my background. Also, all my screenshots which I saved in my desktop and did not show up in the background are all over my background and I have tons of files there now. I cannot drag it back into finder-nothing changes. I can't delete the files either-otherwise all the files are gone.
I tried explaining this to another forum (non mac but they use macs) and they all tell me that they don't get it because desktop in finder and desktop in hte background are one in the same etc, but I swear this isn't normal. I attached 3 pics-one is showing my finder, where things normally go, and another is showing my background-filled with icons all of a sudden. I also have a pic of my desktop folder with the files in finder-this is what it used to look like, just that, nothing in background. Now it looks like that+the background is cluttered.
This is what I mean when I say the desktop in finder-not desktop background
this is what my computer background looks like now!
See-all the files are still in desktop folder like normal, but at the same time my background is cluttered and nothing changes when I try to drag the icons into my desktop folder in finder
Now if I take a screenshot the file shows up on my background. Also, all my screenshots which I saved in my desktop and did not show up in the background are all over my background and I have tons of files there now. I cannot drag it back into finder-nothing changes. I can't delete the files either-otherwise all the files are gone.
I tried explaining this to another forum (non mac but they use macs) and they all tell me that they don't get it because desktop in finder and desktop in hte background are one in the same etc, but I swear this isn't normal. I attached 3 pics-one is showing my finder, where things normally go, and another is showing my background-filled with icons all of a sudden. I also have a pic of my desktop folder with the files in finder-this is what it used to look like, just that, nothing in background. Now it looks like that+the background is cluttered.
This is what I mean when I say the desktop in finder-not desktop background
this is what my computer background looks like now!
See-all the files are still in desktop folder like normal, but at the same time my background is cluttered and nothing changes when I try to drag the icons into my desktop folder in finder
