Repair Privileges Utility problems

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slaakso

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Hi,

I ran the new Repair Privileges Utility. The utility fixed problems it
found and everything seemed to be fine. However, after I had used the
utility my home directory and Desktop don't show any files in Finder,
even than the files are there (I can see them from command line).

In home directory only the Library folder is shown and on the desktop no
files are shown. However, all files on desktop are shown, if I open the
Desktop-folder.

Here is a listing from the home directory:

drwx------ 24 slaakso staff 772 Jun 28 19:17 Documents/
drwx------ 46 slaakso staff 1520 Jun 15 11:22 Library/

The Library-folder is shown in Finder, but the Documents-folder is not
shown. If I create a new folder it is shown, but when I close the window
and open it again, it has turned into invisible.

It seems that there is something wrong with the directories, but what?
Any advice?
:confused:
 
no idea if this will help or not - it works to bring back custom icons after they have switched to generic ones.

open process viewer. double click on finder. choose quit. see the results.

the only other things i can think of is to rebuild your desktop (another haxie is needed for this if you don't know the files to mess with) or delete the.ds_store file for your desktop folder.
 
Originally posted by Ed Spruiell
no idea if this will help or not - it works to bring back custom icons after they have switched to generic ones.

open process viewer. double click on finder. choose quit. see the results.

the only other things i can think of is to rebuild your desktop (another haxie is needed for this if you don't know the files to mess with) or delete the.ds_store file for your desktop folder.
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I've tried to reboot, rebuild desktop, delete the .ds_store file, check the filesystem, nothing helps. It seems that those folders that have been used, become visible. So the Library-folder becomes visible when the login happens. If I open a folder using "Go to folder..." command that folder becomes temporarily visible.

Any more ideas?
 
Took me while to figure it out. The reason was not Apple's utility, but a filename that makes Finder lose it's control.

Start Terminal.app (Using Latin-1)
Start sh
type "touch abcdefghijklmnopqstuvwxyzöäå.txt"

After that you might not see your files and you cannot even delete the file. Only way out is to delete the file using MacOS 9.
 
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