Wow, I have a Performa 6214 myself, so I know what you're talking about! First thought is, if some system files got messed up, let that be a lesson never to give the wife superuser privileges. My first serious suggestion is to try with a different user account. This way you can isolate whether it's a problem with user prefs or the system proper. If the problem runs deeper than the user account, you might be looking at reinstallation. I can't imagine that whatever is wrong could be very easily corrected otherwise. Eric On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 20:58 -0400, The Sargents wrote: > Hi, > I've got a 933 Mhz Quicksilver G4 with 768 mb of Ram running > 10.4.8. The other day the wife was dragging many many many files to > the trash when the machine instead started copying them to the desk > top. She tried unsuccessfully to abort the operation but could not > stop it. She had to force quit the finder . Upon restart there are no > icons on the desktop, not even hard drives, and the finder is > amazingly slow to react. I repaired permissions after booting from > the OS X install disk, no change. Ran Disk Warrior, no change. > Started up in Single user mode, ran fsck and then removed the > finder.plist and sidebar.plist per The X Lab web site. Still slow and > painful to work with (reminds me of my Performa 6200) :-( Tried Drive > Genius- slightly faster, still no desktop. My Konfabulator widgets > see my hard drives and all my menu items are there (S.M.A.R.T. > status, WeatherPop, JumpCut, Konfabulator, etc) Applications run, > albeit slowly. > Any help would be appreciated!