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eppur_se_muova

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3. Open your hard disk and work your way to the Desktop Folder ...

Reply to womanofthehills (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 03:47 PM

May 2018

there you can list files by name, date, etc. instead of as icons which will help things go faster.

Use shift-click to select a large number of files at a time (better than click-and-drag when your Mac is sluggish) and use command-delete to move them to the Trash (same reason).

Hope that's enough.

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Need help - Now have thousands of photos on my desktop [View all] womanofthehills May 2018 OP

start file explorere lapfog_1 May 2018 #1

Open a new Finder window and "view by date." Atman May 2018 #2

Open your hard disk and work your way to the Desktop Folder ... eppur_se_muova May 2018 #3

Thanks everyone!! DU is the best!! womanofthehills May 2018 #4

Onyx Tetrachloride Feb 2019 #5