On 1/3/11 9:04 PM, Dan wrote:
At 12:07 AM -0500 1/4/2011, Yersinia wrote:
On 1/3/11 10:26 PM, Dan wrote:
At 6:52 PM -0800 1/3/2011, Jeffrey & Daile Engle wrote:
I want to know where the "Folder" is that holds the trash? is there
such thing?
And what are you plotting to do to them?
In your home folder, there's ~/.Trash
and up at the root level of the volume is /.Trashes
Because the names start with a dot, they're automagically invisible
to Finder.
If they're invisible, how do you know they're there?
You spray them with anti-invisible spray!
dans-quicksilver:~ dan$ ls -al
drwx------ 6 dan dan 204 Jan 3 22:18 .Trash
dans-quicksilver:~ dan$ ls -al /
d-wx-wx-wt 2 root admin 68 Aug 21 2008 .Trashes
You can view their contents with ls commands in Terminal. Or from
Finder, you can directly open the folders.
- Dan.
If you really, really, really need to see all the hidden files and
folders in the finder, you can pull the old programmer's trick. Enter
these two lines as admin in the console, but be aware the last will
restart the finder:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
More details are on these two webpages:
http://nixtechnica.blogspot.com/2007/05/mac-os-x-show-hidden-files-and-folders.html
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/04/show-hidden-files.html
But I'm not really sure that you'll want to "litter" your desktop like that!
Stephen
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