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IMac severe lag upon start up

Hey guys, I really need help,

I ws saving a movie fr YouTube on my mac in After Effects cs5,

But instead of saving it as a QuickTime movie file, I saved it as a PNG sequence, which is a picture fr every frame, there ws a few thousand frames, and I forgot to make a folder, so there is over a thousand picture files on my desktop,

It completely lagged out my mac fr a few hrs so I turned it off, when I switched it back on after about 5 seconds without even any icons popping up or anything it froze, so I thought maybe if I leave it on, it will un freeze, it didn't work, so now every times switch it on, it freezes after about 5 seconds,

I haven't been on it in a few days because of how bad, and frustrating it has been,

I would be extremely grateful if some one was able to help me get around this problem, I really need help.

It would be handier if you could contact me on Skype as I'm nt on these forums much, add mark.davidson19 on Skype, nd I will be on my iPad and if you want will show u fr yourself what it is like, however if you do not hav Skype, I will be looking back at this forum for the next few hours,

I would be extremely grateful if you can find away around this,

THANK YOU

iMac, iOS 4.3.3, This mac is about 6 months old

Posted on Sep 3, 2012 3:39 PM

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Sep 4, 2012 1:05 PM in response to -_-SwagR

You rename using the "mv" command as I showed you above.


I'm not sure why it's still freezing, then. Maybe try creating a new admin account and troubleshooting from there?


In single-user mode (after you run mount -uw /) use


rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone


and then


reboot


You will be prompted to create a new account on startup. Your old account will remain unaffected. Once you log in, check disk space and see if that's part of the problem.


Matt

IMac severe lag upon start up

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