"Paul Berkowitz" wrote:
> On 3/1/01 4:31 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>> I found that in Sherlock's advanced options that you get to by clicking on
>>>> Edit, you can search for invisible files and folders (first item under
>>>> Advanced Options). Once you find the invisible files, you can delete them
>>>> by
>>>> selecting "Move to Trash" from the file menu. At least I think you can; I
>>>> didn't have anything I really wanted to delete. Make sure you delete ONLY
>>>> the things in the Volume Settings folder.
>>>
>>> The problem with that is there's no way to figure out which items in an
>>> invisible folder you want to delete. Note that the *items* aren't invisible,
>>> just the folder, so a search for "invisible" items gets only the folder, not
>>> the items in it.
>>
>> Hm. That is a difficulty, isn't it? So I guess File Buddy is the way to go!
>
> I provided Jan with a 3-line applescript (here) yesterday, he used it, and
> it fixed his problem. That seems to have been the quickest way to go.
Well, actually, it didn't, since it only deleted the items whose names I
knew about in the invisible folder; in order to delete things I didn't know
about, I got File Buddy and made the folder visible and dragged things to
the trash (turned out there wasn't anything except downloads that didn't
belong there in the folder, so I could have just deleted the whole folder,
but I didn't know that).
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