On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:37 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
OK , I opened up disk utility, clicked on verify permissions, holy
smokers
what a pile of 'should be' files. So I clicked 'repair
permissions'...
Which did...absolutely nada. You would need to run Repair Disk to fix
this sort of
On Dec 15, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
Hunter Fuller wrote:
You can't rename a folder to . - it is definitely the root of the
drive.
/ is the root of the drive. . represents the current directory.
And no, you should not be able to rename/name something .. But it
might not
On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Clark Martin wrote:
This file was called simply . which you can't name a file to. Yes,
you can add a . to the beginning of a filename but you can't make it
just ..
Or it was called . which is a common trick for hiding files, and
easily typoed.
--
Bruce
On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:08 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
Through Inventory X I see a folder in my 10.3.9 partition that has
no more
name than a 'period'. thats all [ . ]
It has 4.3 gigs of duplicated user and administrator stuff - good
grief.
This will take some terminal work.
Find the full
On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:25 AM, D Stubbs wrote:
OK, I have never opened Terminal App, interesting, it opened with a
page
titled
Terminal-Bash-80x24
On this page it has 3 lines of text, but the cursor is not active on
this
page to enter anything,
The cursor is active, just not visible:
D Stubbs wrote:
OK, I have never opened Terminal App, interesting, it opened with a page
titled
Terminal-Bash-80x24
On this page it has 3 lines of text, but the cursor is not active on
this page to enter anything,
so I looked under Files menu and see something called New Shell and New
Whew, to think this stuff is translatable! But then some of my metallurgy
horticulture discussions aren't much better... here goes...( rocky was our
pet racoon of course)
Del
Last login: Tue Dec 16 10:12:20 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:~ rockywoody$ cd /
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:18 AM, D Stubbs wrote:
Last login: Tue Dec 16 10:12:20 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:~ rockywoody$ cd /
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:/ rockywoody$ ls -al
total 10729
drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin 1428 16 Dec 08:34 .
drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:18 AM, D Stubbs wrote:
Last login: Tue Dec 16 10:12:20 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:~ rockywoody$ cd /
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:/ rockywoody$ ls -al
total 10729
drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin
At 11:47 AM -0700 12/16/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:18 AM, D Stubbs wrote:
Last login: Tue Dec 16 10:12:20 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:~ rockywoody$ cd /
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:/ rockywoody$ ls -al
total 10729
drwxrwxr-t 42 root admin
On Dec 16, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Dan wrote:
At 10:14 AM -0700 12/16/2008, Bruce Johnson wrote:
dbdev2 This is the name of the computer I'm using. While this may
seem nonsensical
and totally unimaginative. ug. Fix it.
Unfortunately, if I rename it I have to fix a metric crapload of other
On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:55 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
I hope this is what you wanted...don't know what you mean by
'corresponding
to..',
I'm in awe, are you folks really from planet earth? Me thinks I'm a
mere
mortal.
we-are-from-planet-geek. :-)
(a lovely Minus 26F here in MN on this
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 16, 2008, at 11:18 AM, D Stubbs wrote:
Last login: Tue Dec 16 10:12:20 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
Rocky-Woodys-Computer:~ rockywoody$ cd /
Holy crap...this is going to be a bit more difficult than I thought.
whoa. yea. What he said. I've never seen that before!
You do seem to have two identical '.' directories at the root of the
drive; no additional characters showed up.
They have to have different inode numbers or they
On Dec 16, 2008, at 3:09 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
Holy crap...this is going to be a bit more difficult than I thought.
whoa. yea. What he said. I've never seen that before!
You do seem to have two identical '.' directories at the root of the
drive; no additional characters showed up.
At 2:09 PM -0600 12/16/2008, D Stubbs wrote:
Nuke and re-pave , Oh No!
I know. But at this point you cannot trust your file system. And if
you can't trust that foundation, you can't trust the installed OS on
it either. So grab what you can of your user data then ...
- Dan.
--
-
At 1:55 PM -0600 12/16/2008, D Stubbs wrote:
I'm in awe, are you folks really from planet earth? Me thinks I'm a
mere mortal.
(a lovely Minus 26F here in MN on this piece of mortal earth)
But there is a price for such knowledge. Unix has been around since
1968. Long ago, the tomes overwrote
Well, COPY the stupid things then. DO IT NOW, as a part of
backing everything up.
Of course I have ccc'd the entire partition already
If you really want and need those files, take the time to get them.
That is part what this discusson is , some folk helping me find how to get
them,
2008/12/15 Steve R mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com:
At 9:58 PM -0600 12/15/08, Hunter Fuller posted:
You can't rename a folder to . - it is definitely the root of the drive.
Yes. You can rename a folder with the leading (.) There is even an
app that makes it easy to (.) and un(.) for those
2008/12/16 MIKO .. miko.supp...@gmail.com:
On Dec 16, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
You do seem to have two identical '.' directories at the root of the
drive; no additional characters showed up.
What confuses me is why this problem wasn't found clearly and
obviously with Disk
You do seem to have two identical '.' directories at the root of the
drive; no additional characters showed up.
What confuses me is why this problem wasn't found clearly and
obviously with Disk Utility using verify?
OK , I opened up disk utility, clicked on verify permissions, holy
On Dec 16, 2008, at 6:37 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
OK , I opened up disk utility, clicked on verify permissions, holy
smokers what a pile of 'should be' files. So I clicked 'repair
permissions', took 10 minutes,
Then I went back to Disk Inventory X, but see no differences, still
have a
Thankyou everyone!
Thanks to Tony mentioning Inventory X - now I can see 6 gigs I dont need
bloating space, wahoo!
But for a little clarification...
I am a blacksmith, not a puter xpert, so some of your sincere replies are a
bit over my head, would it be helpful to have new members give a 1-10
'.' indicates the root of the drive, i.e., open up the hard drive
viewer and you are looking at '.' -- you can't delete that. You need
some program that cleans temporary files, someone on the list maybe
can suggest one?
2008/12/15 D Stubbs dsmn...@gmail.com:
Thankyou everyone!
Thanks to Tony
For clarity, it *may* be that this is not the normal situation for the '.'
root of the drive. That it was a folder accidently renamed by me instead
(farbeit for me to know about roots of drives though)
Below is what is listed in Disk Inventory X about this folder :
Kind: folder (4)
Size:4.8GB
On 15-Dec-08, at 7:08 PM, D Stubbs wrote:
I am confident this folder can be dumped ( thanks to you folks I
have made a ccc backup now)
However this 4.3 gig folder does not show up in the normal osx
folder - how do I locate it so it can be trashed?
I tried to trash it from Inventory
You can't rename a folder to . - it is definitely the root of the drive.
2008/12/15 D Stubbs dsmn...@gmail.com:
For clarity, it may be that this is not the normal situation for the '.'
root of the drive. That it was a folder accidently renamed by me instead
(farbeit for me to know about roots
At 9:58 PM -0600 12/15/08, Hunter Fuller posted:
You can't rename a folder to . - it is definitely the root of the drive.
Yes. You can rename a folder with the leading (.) There is even an
app that makes it easy to (.) and un(.) for those who want to add
invisibility to files and folders
Hunter Fuller wrote:
You can't rename a folder to . - it is definitely the root of the drive.
/ is the root of the drive. . represents the current directory.
And no, you should not be able to rename/name something .. But it
might not be ., it might be . or ..
--
Clark Martin
Redwood
Steve R wrote:
At 9:58 PM -0600 12/15/08, Hunter Fuller posted:
You can't rename a folder to . - it is definitely the root of the drive.
Yes. You can rename a folder with the leading (.) There is even an
app that makes it easy to (.) and un(.) for those who want to add
invisibility
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