On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:05 PM, Peter Schaff wrote:
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.
Yeah, I'm not much enamored of PathFinder.
SNAX shows all invisible files, which has been very educational
to me.
I'm an old Unix hand, so firing up the terminal and looking at stuff
( all files are visible in terminal) is second nature.
There's a number of programs that set the invisibility/visibility of
OS X files. MacJanitor does as well, iirc.
I may have just booted from the Tiger DVD, then followed the
instructions given in the KB article above to set the visibility of
the actual links on the boot disk.
I may have even done it while booted. I've got to go scrounge through
a mailing list archive where we discussed this and the fix.
For the time being, these files being visible are no problem. So long
as you don't delete them, you're fine.
--
Bruce Johnson
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