Finder and Other Problems

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Finder and Other Problems

After I had to force quit System Preferences I also restarted my iMac. Now, when I open Finder, ALL the listing of "My Documents", "Applications" have disappeared! The docs are there, for whe I open Excel, or Word, I can access the documents.

And "Desktop" tab in System Preferences still stops while "Loading Images"! I have to Force Quit again...

When I click the apple icon and then "About This Mac" nothing happens... In the past I could get the info

When I stick an external Scan stick: nothing shown on desktop as before

When I switched from one user to the other (there are only two) , the screen turned to the new user with the password prompt. Now after a long wait, only a blue screen and after a while the password prompt.

Whan has happened here? What can be done to restore

Posted on Feb 1, 2013 9:32 AM

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mmollo22

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Feb 1, 2013 9:37 AM in response to fak119

Did you recently install a third party app?

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fak119 Author

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Feb 1, 2013 9:47 AM in response to mmollo22

I might have, some on iPad. what kind of third party apps?

And it gets worse:

When I open iPhoto, the following notice appears: "Caution The iPhoto Library is locked, on a locked disk, or you do not have permission to make changes to it."

When I connect my iPad, iTunes does not open and I cannot start iTunes manually

As I cannot see the application in the Finder, I can only access those few on the dock.

I am at my wits end...

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