Doug Starkey deftly typed--
>Ok, maybe our Macs are immune to the viruses going around right now, but >they still can suffer the effects. One of these bonehead mass-mailer >worms sent out an attachment named ".zip". Emailer got it & downloaded it >and now it is invisible everywhere except in e-mailer. >(I'm sure you all realize the naming a file with a period at the front is >a Mac "no-no"). > >I cannot delete it. Oddly, I somehow managed to "drag" it from my >downloads folder to my desktop (where it is still invisible!). I did this >by grabbing it in the Emailer attachments window and dragging towards the >desktop. Don't ask me what I was thinking... I don't know why I thought >it would be any more visible there. Now it will not drag anywhere else... >well, at least it is resisting my efforts to drag it to the trash (no >doubt one of the quirks of Classic interacting with OSX). > >I tried doing a "ls" command in the Terminal, but it doesn't even show up >that way. > >HELP! I really don't want this file sitting around on my hard drive like >a benign but hideously defacing tumor. > >Anybody got a cure? You don't state what Mac and OS you are using although use of Terminal is an obvious clue that it is OS X. Can you boot into OS 9? If so you can easily find the file with the Find command, checking on the 'show invisibles' check box. There is a utility called Kilometre on version tracker that works with invisible files. <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11432> Finally this was discussed several times on the Mac-L discussion list. You can search the archives for the thread here <http://listserv.lehigh.edu/lists/archives/mac-l/> Cheers. bevon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
