HELP. i am NOT a puter geek, which is WHY i have an OLD OSX from 2006.

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7. I don't allow my Hard Drive to show on the Desktop. Just folders and external drives.

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Do you have an external drive for Time Machine?

I had one but didn't have it installed a few years ago. About that time my iMac was beginning to do strange thing and freezing up. When your Hard Drive goes, there is little warning. It just goes. In fact, as the technician told, it is guaranteed to go, they have a limited life.

Mine went out a few years and since I had 230g on it that was terrible, but I was referred over to a good shop that is honest and cheap and they spent a week with fans blowing at my very dead hard drive to keep it cool. They recovered everything I wanted to the external hard drive I hadn't used yet, then loaded it back up. I'm a biga believer in doing back ups, and Time Machine does a continous background scan and then backs them up regularly unless the computer or Time Machine is turned off.

My Hard Drive was freezing up Finder, a lot of things were getting slower and going haywire for a while and then one day that was it. I couldn't access anything. So I urge you to get a backup drive, or you may lose your files altogether.

I'm guessing that the Restart helped you out. Good luck with your Mac.