Rebuilding your desktop
A procedure known as “rebuilding the desktop” helps your Macintosh to keep accurate track of data on your startup disks. Even though rebuilding the desktop does not usually fix problems once they occur, it does prevent some types of problems. Therefore, it’s a good idea to rebuild your desktop once a month or so.
Before you rebuild the desktop, you’ll need to turn off some extensions, which may interfere with the desktop rebuilding process. You’ll turn them back on later.
To rebuild the desktop, follow these steps:
1Open the Extensions Manager control panel by choosing Extensions Manager from the Control Panels submenu of the Apple (K) menu.
2From the Sets
3In the Save Set dialog box, type a name for your currently selected extensions (for example, “My Extensions”) and click OK. The name of your set is added to the Sets
This saves your current set of extensions.
4Choose All Off from the Sets
5Turn on Macintosh Easy Open by clicking it in the list so that a checkmark appears beside it.
You can find Macintosh Easy Open by scrolling down the list of extensions. Macintosh Easy Open appears under the heading “Control Panels.”
6Restart your computer while holding down the Command (x) and Option keys.
Hold down the x and Option keys until you see the dialog box that asks if you’re sure you want to rebuild your desktop file. When the dialog box appears, you can release the keys.
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