On Aug 9, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Nancy Haitz wrote:
I have a UNIX sort of question. After I copied my failing system
to the new drive, I have three aliases of folders sitting on my new
system. They are: etc, temp and var. I understand that there are
certain files an directories that are hidden in the Finder. Much
like seeing a Temporary Items folder and a Desktop Folder on a
storage partition. But I am seeing etc, temp and var when I boot
from the cloned partition.
This is a known issue with Tiger. There's a KB article about it:
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301677> ...which
isn't much help after the restore.
I had this issue with my powerbook after using Disk Utility to
restore a disk image to a bigger HDD. With luck, I'll remember what I
did to fix it (or maybe it's just ignore the things.)
Am I supposed to do something with those folders. Or, should I
just move them to the trash?
LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!
Those directories are critical parts of Unix, and many MANY things
break if they're not there. These are normally invisible, but the
process that Disk Utility uses to clone a drive over leaves them
visible.
--
Bruce Johnson
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