OSX applications problem

[jibjab]

Hi All....

When clicking on applications in the HD toolbar, the page is blank that used to display my apps. They have somehow been moved down past the jump. When I scroll down to try to access them, I get the spinning beachball and after a minute or two the page quits. I can't get to my app icons to use them. Any ideas? I'm spending a lot of time with spinning beachballs and no results. G4 iMac 512ram 80gig Newbie here. Thank you for your help.

 

[DelJo63]

open the HD icon on your desktop. On the left are the list of common locations,
eg Desktop, userloginid, Applications, Documents, Movies, Music, Pictures

On the right (using a list view, not the icon view) is a tree view of all the folders.

Next to Applications, on its immediate left, is a small arrow pointing right.
Click on it once; it will rotate to point down. You should see all kinds of
programs there. IF SO, you need to fix your ICON view;

First change the view to ICONs,
then use view menu again to ARRANGE (by name, date, whatever you please)