>Dan <[email protected]> May 28 12:37PM -0400 Could be that you're grabbing
>some invisible files too. You can set Finder to display most invisible files
>using a tool such as OnyX. Or you can just use the "ls -al" command in
>Terminal to view them all. In Finder's preferences, set it to show all file
>extensions. If you haven't been giving files appropriate extensions, get in
>the habit of doing so. This will reduce the possibility of odd name
>collisions. And Apple has depreciated the old creator/type code system anyway.
>- Dan. >> Melvyn & Edith Halbert <[email protected]> May 27 12:16AM -0400
>>I often use the Finder to Copy a bunch of files from my iMac's internal hard
>>drive to some >>external device. Occasionally an error message pops up that
>>says 'An item named "" already exists >>in this location. Do you want to
>>replace it with the one you're moving?' The error message sometimes
>>>>includes a dot for the name of a problem file (".").
>>When this error occurs with a bunch of files, I have found no easy way to
>>determine what the real >>filename is or which application created that file.
>>Some of the files being copied were created from >>webpages saved from
>>Safari, but most of them are text files created by Text Edit in its rtf mode
>>(but >>without the extension .rtf).
>>I never saw this error before I started using Lion.
To make invisible files and folders visible the simplest way is to download a
Dashboard widget that toggles invisibility off or on. Install it and you get a
tiny window that says "Hidden Files" with a single button: Show.
<http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html>
Jane
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