>Now I'll reveal my OS X ignorance: are .DS_Store visible or invisible? >Do I have to do something Unixy to make them appear? But whether I can >see it or not, in the case of the Temp Incoming folder, all I need to do >is to make sure it is empty, trash it, quit and restart CE, and I'm set? >Got it.
Anything in OS X that starts with a period is invisible. So a .DS_Store file is invisible. The only thing you have to do to make one appear, is use the folder in some manner that makes the Finder think it needs to store info about that folder. A .DS_Store file is just a file that lets the Finder know what your settings are for that folder (such as view, icon size, sort order, stuff like that). This means if you open the Temp Incoming folder, it might create a .DS_Store file. If you copy the Temp Incoming folder to or from an OS X drive, it might create one. Or sometimes if you sneeze while dancing a jig, it might create one (in other words, sometimes they are created just because the Finder felt like it). Once one is in the Temp Incoming folder, it will prevent Emailer from unpacking the messages correctly. Emailer will download the messages, but won't unpack them until a 2nd set of messages has been downloaded (and then it will do the first but not the 2nd, leaving the 2nd to wait until another set is downloaded). Quitting and restarting Emailer will force it to unpack those messages. Not fatal, but REALLY annoying. Fortuantly, the fix is easy, get rid of the .DS_Store file. And the easiest way to do that is to throw out the Temp Incoming folder (make sure it is empty first so you don't accidentally throw out messages that haven't been unpacked), and then restart Emailer so it can create a brand new fresh and empty folder. A good tip is to also close ALL open windows, because I have found that if Emailer creates the new Temp Incoming folder while its enclosing folder is open, then the Finder sometimes creates that .DS_Store file again. So I suggest closing all open folders because it is easier then explaining specifically which folder to close. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
