On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 06:28 AM, Dan Pennington wrote:
> I just bought an SE/30. Fires up nicely, looks pretty good, but the
> System Folder is nowhere to be found. If I do a File Search on some
> file names that are usually in a System Folder, it says that they are
> in the System Folder on the Hard Drive.
> Has property tags from some school system and teacher type files on
> the hard drive - grades, evaluations, and lesson plan stuff. I
> figure that the school techie made the System Folder invisible so
> that students and teachers couldn't mess with it.
First run Find File and look for anything called 'At Ease' or
'Foolproof'. If either are installed this maybe hiding it. I'm not tuned
as to the specifics of these utilities but they are anti-tamper devices
for Mac OS 7.
> I know it's possible to do the invisibility thing, but that's all I
> know. Would somebody ,please, tell me how to undo it (so that I can
> mess with it). Please don't tell me that I have to haul it to Mount
> Doom and throw it into the volcano!
If it is just invisible it's probably been hidden by a utility like File
Buddy or FileTyper. It is pretty easy to undo, just look for a utility
called 'Invisible File Copier'. I used this to eradicate a file/utility
on my original LCIII hard disk that kept coughing it's guts up on
startup as I'd removed the accompanying Extension/CP.
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