Hi,
I have relatively new imac with about 230 Gig free space but after the drama of removing 4 Ghost files from my desktop now i can't save anything to anything???
Some Background...
My sister in law downloaded 4 word documents to my desktop (logged on as me Administrator)
Turns out there are a couple of characters which windows allows in filenames but Mac doesn't so when the files saved the illegal characters were replaced with "%20".
As a result the Os didn't know how to manage the files, one minute they would appear then next dissappear etc.. etc..
Also i couldn't save any files to the desktop or anywhere else as i kept getting a error -43 message.
After some searching i found out how to delete the files using Terminal.
I typed..
cd Desktop
sudo rm Filename%20.doc
One by one the four files were deleted Yay!!!
Thinking myself very clever i restarted my mac and opened text editor typed a few characters and then went file Save as into desktop
words to the effect "File cannot be saved" appear.
Same thing for Word and Excel files i attempt to save in any directory!!!
I cant save any files anywhere and the error message is meaningless???
Everything else appears fine, all programmes load/operate no worries - just can't save any data.
Can anyone explain what has happened and how i might fix this????
I have relatively new imac with about 230 Gig free space but after the drama of removing 4 Ghost files from my desktop now i can't save anything to anything???
Some Background...
My sister in law downloaded 4 word documents to my desktop (logged on as me Administrator)
Turns out there are a couple of characters which windows allows in filenames but Mac doesn't so when the files saved the illegal characters were replaced with "%20".
As a result the Os didn't know how to manage the files, one minute they would appear then next dissappear etc.. etc..
Also i couldn't save any files to the desktop or anywhere else as i kept getting a error -43 message.
After some searching i found out how to delete the files using Terminal.
I typed..
cd Desktop
sudo rm Filename%20.doc
One by one the four files were deleted Yay!!!
Thinking myself very clever i restarted my mac and opened text editor typed a few characters and then went file Save as into desktop
words to the effect "File cannot be saved" appear.
Same thing for Word and Excel files i attempt to save in any directory!!!
I cant save any files anywhere and the error message is meaningless???
Everything else appears fine, all programmes load/operate no worries - just can't save any data.
Can anyone explain what has happened and how i might fix this????