On Tuesday, August 9, 2005, at 04:19 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
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.)
Bruce, are you familiar with SNAX? It's an early OSX Finder
replacement which may not run on OSes later than Jag(?) but there is a
replacement, Path Finder, which will. There is a Tiger-only version
(4) soon to be released. SNAX shows all invisible files, which has
been very educational to me.
The reason I mention it here is that in the SNAX Info command, there is
a checkbox for "Invisible". I'm not inclined to dink around with what
I don't understand, but it might solve this problem for you and Nancy.
SNAX is no longer available. I'd be happy to send it to you if you
like. It's the demo version, crippled only by an hourly requester.
Question: In bringing Amiga files over to the Mac using my PM 10.2.8
to format a Zip100 disk and then finding a mountlist (driver) for
CrossMac on the Amiga that would read/write the disk, I ran into a
problem. Amiga file icons are actually a separate file on the Amiga.
It's the primary file name with the extension ".info". These .info
files show up on the Amiga, but are invisible in OSX. With the aid of
SNAX I was able to accomplish copying the files to the Mac from the
Zip. But, do you know why OSX treats .info files as Unix (I'm
assuming), hence invisible? Curious minds want to know. ;^)
I'm also curious as to whether I could clone my boot drive with SNAX,
or is more missed by a Finder copy than invisible files?
Thanks.
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.
I'd be interested in what you think of Path Finder and if it still has
the "invisible" toggle. It needs at least Panther (yet another reason
to upgrade?)
Bruce Johnson
As an aside, when I use Finder on the PM to look at the networked iMac
(both running 10.2.8), those aliases in the root directory (etc, tmp,
var and so forth) show up as visible in the regular Finder, but are
invisible from the iMac.
- Peter
PM: 1GHz DP/1 GB/80GBx2/10.2.8
iMac: 600MHz/768MB/40GB/10.2.8
PB: 3400C/9.1
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