Finder Crash Loop
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Finder is crashing over and over again as it’s attempts to view the Desktop folder. Something is on there it doesn’t like.
Fire up Terminal.app, type pwd and press enter and likely you are shown /Users/youraccount.
Taking a look inside this folder by entering ls, which equates to ‘list’, you should by now realize where you are as you see a list of all files on your Desktop. We go here to weed out the bastard.
Let’s clear the whole mother off by entering rm -rf ./*. Wait… Let’s just delete the .sit files which persuaded us to download Stuffit in the first place by entering rm -rf ./*.sit.
While I’m in here I’m just going to delete the bazillion past-week random file saves entering rm -rf ./Untitled.* which will whack all files named that regardless of the file extension.
And for future reference, a string of particulars can follow the slash so as to remove multiple files of various attributes; In which case, rm -rf ./r* lo* .p*, would delete all files in which names begin with r, lo, and those in which the file extension name begins with p.
