At 8:38 AM -0700 12/11/08, Bruce Johnson posted:
> On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Steve R wrote:
>
>> I make it a habit of downloading to a non-OS drive or partition, and
>> from there will mount or unzip a downloaded application, moving or
>> installing to the OS drive Applications folder. File Buddy is showing
>> a lot of invisible files, the sort I would expect to find on an OS
>> drive, such as /user/bin... etc.
>
>
>
> Make sure file buddy is looking at that thing properly. Unless the
> 'non-OS' volume had OSX installed on it at one point, you should not
> have those files there at all, leading me to believe that Filebuddy is
> following a soft link or alias back to your boot drive, snd deleting
> those things would be rather catastrophic (not the X11.app, but
> definitely the stuff in /usr/bin!)
I had thought File Buddy might be following aliases, however when I
use the make visible command, the files are definitely on the non-OS
partition/drive, which has never had an OS loaded on it. That
partition and the other internal drive are both used for files only.
I've never installed X11 although I vaguely remember at some point in
time having downloaded it from Apple as either a zip or dmg, and
having mounted it.
Question/s: When an application or folder is expanded from a non-.dmg
container, as a rule of thumb, would it be safe to say that any
invisible files associated with that application or folder end up on
the drive or partition where the application or folder is expanded
(vs. on the drive where the application being used to expand the
files is located)?
If an app or folder is mounted via a .dmg image, and the
app/associated files are not opened in any way, would there be any
invisible files left behind when the image is closed?
What is the best way to get rid of these unused invisible files?
Steve R
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