When I put quotes around the path I get the following:

Neills-MacBook-Pro:~ neillsmith$ ls -laeO "/Volumes/Macintosh HD - 
Data/VCTTools"

total 32

drwxr-xr-x   9 neillsmith  wheel  -        288 Mar 23  2018 .

drwxr-xr-x   3 root        wheel  -         96 May 16 16:08 ..

-rw-r--r--@  1 neillsmith  wheel  hidden 14340 Jun 27 13:11 .DS_Store

drwxr-xr-x   9 neillsmith  wheel  -        288 Mar 10  2018 .svn

drwxr-xr-x  36 neillsmith  wheel  -       1152 Mar 10  2018 Etc

drwxr-xr-x  61 neillsmith  wheel  -       1952 Sep 27  2020 Exe

drwxr-xr-x   6 neillsmith  wheel  -        192 Dec 14  2017 MacBin

drwxr-xr-x  47 neillsmith  wheel  -       1504 Apr 15  2020 Matlab

drwxr-xr-x  35 neillsmith  wheel  -       1120 Dec 19  2019 bat

Neills-MacBook-Pro:~ neillsmith$ 

What the heck is wheel?

Neill
On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 1:57:23 PM UTC-4 jj wrote:

> Neill,
>
> The path /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/VCTTools contains spaces.
> You should quote paths that contains spaces when using them in the 
> terminal, like so:
>     "/Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/VCTTools"
>
> Otherwise the shell interprets it as 4 paths space separated: 
>  /Volumes/Macintosh
> HD
> -
> Data/VCTTools
>
>
> On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 7:42:59 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Thanks to Rich and Jean I "think" we have found the problem. When I went 
>> to execute the Terminal commands suggested by Rich I couldn't find the 
>> /VCTTools folder in Finder to drag it to the Terminal window.
>>
>> I can get to /VCTTools because I had a shortcut to it in the LHS panel of 
>> Finder where you save links to often-used folders. I have been clicking 
>> that link to get to /VCTTools. When I do, the path shown is
>>
>> /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/VCTTools
>>
>> which Jean noticed. If I paste the above path into the Terminal commands 
>> suggested by Rich I get
>>
>> Neills-MacBook-Pro:~ neillsmith$ ls -laeO /Volumes/Macintosh HD - 
>> Data/VCTTools
>>
>> ls: -: No such file or directory
>>
>> ls: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
>>
>> ls: Data/VCTTools: No such file or directory
>>
>> ls: HD: No such file or directory
>>
>> Neills-MacBook-Pro:~ neillsmith$ 
>>
>>
>> If I click "back" when at the/VCTTools folder via my saved Finder link, I 
>> end up at
>>
>>                Macintosh HD without /Volumes as part of the path.
>>
>>  I see folders
>>
>>               Applications, System, Users
>>
>> I see a lot of grayed-out entries including
>>
>>              Volumes
>>
>> If I double-click Volumes, I see two folders
>>
>>               Mackintosh HD (has different icon, might not be a folder)
>>
>>               Mackintosh - Data
>>
>> If I double-click Mackintosh - HD, I see the folder VCTToolds.
>>
>> So VCTTools is not where  thought it was. 
>>
>> So how and where do I move VCTTools?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Neill
>> On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 1:12:27 PM UTC-4 jj wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Neill,
>>>
>>> I notice that the scripting error you describe in your first post is:
>>>
>>> >    A scripting error has occurred:
>>> >    sh: /VCTTools/bat/hdbgsub.sh: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Yet in another post you add:
>>>     
>>> >    The HydroV_dbg.scpt file invokes the script hdbgsub.sh which 
>>> resides in folder
>>> >    /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/VCTTools/bat
>>>
>>> Since macOS Catalina, MacOS now splits the operating system and data 
>>> files into two volumes.
>>>
>>> see <
>>> https://www.macworld.com/article/233490/why-you-might-see-a-new-data-disk-in-catalina.html
>>> >
>>>
>>> So hdbgsub.sh was probably moved to the data files when you upgraded you 
>>> system and is accessible at:
>>>     
>>>     /Volumes/Macintosh HD - Data/VCTTools/bat/hdbgsub.sh
>>>     
>>> Consequently you should replace the old path by this new path in the 
>>> script that calls hdbgsub.sh.
>>>
>>> [Hstat Hmsg] = system([root,slash,'Volumes',slash,'Macintosh HD - 
>>> Data',slash,'VCTTools',slash,'bat',slash,'hdbgsub',ext,' ',filename]);
>>>     
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Jean Jourdain
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 7:09:51 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27 Jun 2021, at 12:36, Neill Smith wrote: 
>>>>
>>>> > K>> cd /VCTTools 
>>>> > Error using cd 
>>>> > Cannot CD to /VCTTools (Name is nonexistent or not a directory). 
>>>> > 
>>>> > So in Finder I can get to /VCTTools and edit files. BBEdit can open 
>>>> > files 
>>>> > under /VCTTools and edit them. 
>>>> > But other programs don't see this directory /VCTTools. 
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps you and the Finder have a different idea of where that folder 
>>>> is. 
>>>>
>>>> Try this: 
>>>>
>>>> - open a new Terminal window. 
>>>>
>>>> - type "ls -laeO " (including the space), but do NOT press Return or 
>>>> Enter. 
>>>>
>>>> - drag the "VCTTools" folder from the Finder *into* the Terminal 
>>>> window. 
>>>> This will enter the full path to the folder. 
>>>>
>>>> - now press Return. 
>>>>
>>>> At step 3 you'll see the actual Unix path to the "VCTTools" folder, and 
>>>> that perhaps may explain why Terminal and Finder don't agree. 
>>>>
>>>> Then supply the output from the "ls" command, since that may hold some 
>>>> clues as well. 
>>>>
>>>> R. 
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. 
>>>> <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> 
>>>>
>>>> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. 
>>>>
>>>

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