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ManosLondonUK - Jun 6, 2005 - 3:06 pm
Hello there, thank you for providing such a great service!
I have a weird one. I suddenly noticed that the usr folder on my hard drive has become visible. I used an application called Wizzard to unhide and hide again the files that are supposed to be hidden but it changed nothing. I've also used Tinkertool recently so I went back to it and reverted back to the pre-tinkertool settings but again, no success. I'm on an iMac G5 2 Ghz running 10.4.1.
Can you think of anything that may have caused this? Or a way to correct it?
Many thanks
Manos
I have a weird one. I suddenly noticed that the usr folder on my hard drive has become visible. I used an application called Wizzard to unhide and hide again the files that are supposed to be hidden but it changed nothing. I've also used Tinkertool recently so I went back to it and reverted back to the pre-tinkertool settings but again, no success. I'm on an iMac G5 2 Ghz running 10.4.1.
Can you think of anything that may have caused this? Or a way to correct it?
Many thanks
Manos
tubajensen - Jun 6, 2005 - 5:22 pm
ManosLondonUK,
what's in your /.hidden file?
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Allan
what's in your /.hidden file?
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Allan
ManosLondonUK - Jun 7, 2005 - 12:38 pm
Hi, thanks for replying. I cannot find the file you are referring to. Where shall I look for it?
Thank you
Thank you
tubajensen - Jun 8, 2005 - 12:19 pm
You could try typing ls -a / in Terminal and hit the return key. To see what's in .hidden you can type more /.hidden and hit return.
To change the visibility of your usr folder you could try using XRay http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/index.html or the AppleCore Project tools http://rixstep.com/4/0/3/ .
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Allan
To change the visibility of your usr folder you could try using XRay http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/index.html or the AppleCore Project tools http://rixstep.com/4/0/3/ .
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Allan
tubajensen - Jun 8, 2005 - 12:19 pm
You could try typing ls -a / in Terminal and hit the return key. To see what's in .hidden you can type more /.hidden and hit return.
To change the visibility of your usr folder you could try using XRay http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/index.html or the AppleCore Project tools http://rixstep.com/4/0/3/ .
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Allan
To change the visibility of your usr folder you could try using XRay http://www.brockerhoff.net/xray/index.html or the AppleCore Project tools http://rixstep.com/4/0/3/ .
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Allan
ManosLondonUK - Jun 8, 2005 - 8:35 pm
Thank you very much Allan, XRay did the trick.
I don't quite understand why but I think I've found where the problem came from. It's aMSN. In the preferences, under "Others", it has a section called Library directories. In there it says CONVERT /usr/local/bin/convert. It's the only application where I can see any kind of reference to the invisible usr folder. I'm not a programmer so I don't quite understand the link between aMSN and the problem I'm having but I'm sure there is one. If you make more sense of it, please let me know.
Thanks again!
I don't quite understand why but I think I've found where the problem came from. It's aMSN. In the preferences, under "Others", it has a section called Library directories. In there it says CONVERT /usr/local/bin/convert. It's the only application where I can see any kind of reference to the invisible usr folder. I'm not a programmer so I don't quite understand the link between aMSN and the problem I'm having but I'm sure there is one. If you make more sense of it, please let me know.
Thanks again!
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