How to recover invisible folder in Trash?

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Hello, all...my first post here.

I'm running a G4/733MHz with 768MB, and have had numerous problems with applications crashing. So I decided to re-install Panther, archiving the old system. Well, Panther failed to install properly (quitting mid-way through) and fouled up my system, making the drive un-bootable.

After many hours, I have a bootable drive back with most everything back, but all my applications are stored in the invisible '.Trashes' folder in the Trash.

I need to pull '.Trashes' out of the trash, but apparently I don't have enough permission. Do I need to login as root? Is there any other/easier way to recover what's now in .'Trashes'?

Thanks...
 
Go Menu>Go To Folder dialog and type "~/.Trash." This will take you to the invisible Trash folder.
 
If Panther failed to get all the way through the installation process flawlessly, I would suggest wiping the drive clean and reinstalling freshly every time until you get a perfect install. There's no reason that the install should crash, so if it does crash during the install or fail to make it through all the way without error, then the resulting system is destined to have more errors in the future, some of them not even showing up for quite a while.

Trying to rebuild an OS from scraps scattered across the drive doesn't sound like a good idea to me -- is the days of OS 9, there were only a few thousand files that comprised the entire system, so mucking with extensions and individual system files to fix instability was feasible -- but with OS X's tens of thousands of files, if an error lies with just one of those files, you'd spend more time trying to track it down than you would reinstalling fresh and reloading all your applications.

Just a suggestion!
 
Thanks for your replies. In the end, I logged in as the root user, and was able to drag the 'missing' folder out of .trashes.

Regarding Panther's failure to install properly, I'm beginning to suspect a hardware problem with my Toshiba DVD drive; it makes far too much noise and vibration, so that could have been the cause of the problem.

Now I'm ready to make a totally clean drive for my Tiger installation :D
 
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