Hi Chris & Sarah, I think I read that Sarah placed a period before Solona, which (for Sarah's benefit), will show a number of system files which are generally hidden. But the figure of 14000 is very high
TC James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny On 25 Mar 2010, at 06:05, Chris Blouch wrote: > 14000 files? If you are in your home directory there should only be a handful > such as Movies, Music, Downloads etc. Once in your solona folder there could > be lots of files and folders, but unless it's really poorly organized it > shouldn't be that many. > > CB > > Sarah Alawami wrote: >> Oh when I tried that it asked if I wanted to desplay all 14000 or so items. >> lol. but I am not familar with linux at all btw. >> On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >> >> >>> It's the same as pretty much any unix shell. So when you first fire up >>> terminal you are already in your home directory. Not sure where you put >>> this solona folder but it it's in your home directory you can just do >>> >>> cd solona >>> >>> with no slashes. If it's on your desktop you'll first want to cd to that. >>> Note that unix is case sensitive so you'll want to cd Desktop with a >>> capital D. Also you can take advantage of some nice autocomplete stuff with >>> the tab key. So you could just type cd De then tab and it will fill in >>> Desktop, assuming you don't have multiple files with that name. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm trying to change to a directory in my home folder. I've tried cd >>>> /solona cd ./solona and what ever I could think of. I can't get this to >>>> work. I'm trying to install the solona script but working width the >>>> command line in mac is just a bit different then n windows. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> S >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en >>> . >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
