Hanging OSX 10.6.8 on 10 second start up Help???

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Hanging OSX 10.6.8 on 10 second start up Help???

I just accidently dropped 650 Gb of Photo's accidently on my desktop/iMac and now it's just hanging (Beach ball). This was done with the photo's i just backed up from my iphoto library that had just crashed. Dammit, that had copied to an external drive, then i tried dropping them into a folder on the external and because it was so large they lagged and landed on the desktop.😮

So i can at the moment boot and i get 10 seconds of screen time before the system goes into hang mode, just the spinng ball. then its all over. FREEZE thats it!!!

I have tried booting with the iMac OSX System Boot disc, with command and the disc just pops back out it will not except the disc or read from it and using c.

I have tried, looging into the server through my wifi & macbook and delteing these jpg and cR.2 files (which show they are 0 kilobyes, on the desktop veiwing through the server on my macbook)- but they say error 8072 and cannot be deleted.

I have tried deleting the through terminal with sudo rm -rf to get around the error 8072 and It won't let me delets the files through there from the server on my macbook to my iMac.

Ok sooo i'm throwing this out to all the EXPERT TECH HEADS out there!

What else is there to try?????

I do not want to format!

Please help

Oh I DID have a back up copy but ended up deleting this yesterday. Then using the external drive to save the iPhoto files too. VERY BAD IDEA!!! 😢

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on May 10, 2012 4:10 AM

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Answer 1

Yer_Man

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May 10, 2012 6:32 AM in response to happysnapper77

You need to stop doing things that are likely to make things worse. be paticularly careful with using sudo rm commands. At the rate you're going you might erase your entire disk.

It's not a bad idea to make back ups, what's a bad idea is to drop 650 gigs of photos on to your desktop.

Your Mac is now hung trying to render this data on launch.

Go to the forum for your version of the OS and explain what's happened. Someone there will be able to guide you through the steps.

Regards

TD

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Answer 2

May 11, 2012 8:06 AM in response to Yer_Man

It is a bad idea to drop 650 gb's of photos on you DT if you do it on purpose, unfortuantly accidents do happen.

I myself being an I.T engineering Major thought giving these idea's a shot and worth the while although i know terminal does stand for death! hah!- as this really had me stuck.

I'm no complete fool as i have solved this myself though, thanks for trying and for your suggestions though, LJ

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