On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote: > I found the missing folders in the ".trashes" folder on the same hard drive > where they originally resided. I do not know how or where to find a ".trash" > folder. For that matter, I just searched invisible files on my external drive > and internal drive at home and can't find either a ".trash" or ".trashes" > folder on either of them.
The Finder is wired to treat the .Trash folder a little differently. If you want to see its contents from the Finder, use the Go command. For example, type splat-shift-G and then ~/.Trash to see your own trash. If you want to see all invisible files all the time, type "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE" into the terminal and then restart the Finder. It is a Unix convention that files with names starting with a period are invisible. This was done so the zillions of configuration files wouldn't normally clutter up the view. You can always see them in the terminal with the "ls -a" command. My solution to this is to hardly ever use the Finder. For a few years, I've been using Path Finder instead. It has a menu item to show invisible files, plus a bushel of other useful features. As for the Drobo, my guess is you either accidentally hit splat-x, splat-del or there's a directory problem. I'd use any utility the Drobo folks recommend to check the directory structure. Don't use just any old disk tool unless you know for sure the Drobo won't fool it! A utility expecting a normal hard drive might not play nicely with that sort-of-RAID on the Drobo. You might also want to make sure your Drobo firmware is new enough for Lion. _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
