OS 10.4 - Hidden Files

OhMyDays · OhMyDays #1 (**permalink**)

03-30-2009, 10:07 AM

Hi. I have got a problem:

I recently changed my harddisc to a 250GB. Everything worked out fine. One day I went to change my desktop picture, when suddenly I could not find the pictures. I checked their location in Finder and found them. I restarted my Mac, but when i then opened Finder all of my pictures, movies and music was gone. I have searched my entire computer, but they are not there. All the programs I installed and my opdates were there, but not the files. 75GB of my 250GB is still occupied though. This, I reckon, might be the files. Can anybody help me? (Not the Apple Support in Denmark)

Regards

scathe · scathe #2 (**permalink**)

03-30-2009, 11:22 AM

I don't understand what you mean by not finding and then finding your pictures

anyway, is it by any means possible that you logged in on a different account? this way you wouldn't get acces to files of a different user

I doubt that the files are hidden, it's not hard to look at hidden files, but these are mostly hidden for a reason(!) ... to see hidden files type "ls -a" or better "ls -laF" in Terminal in each folder, there is a way to make Finder see hidden files, but I advise against that ... either way you would have to rename all your files to add a period in the beginning to make them hidden, so the problem is elsewhere

OhMyDays · OhMyDays #3 (**permalink**)

03-30-2009, 01:31 PM

thank you for your answer. i'll look in to it

hughvane · hughvane #4 (**permalink**)

03-30-2009, 03:37 PM

FileBuddy is an excellent application for showing hidden files. I agree with scathe, files are hidden for good reason, so be careful.

Try using Cmd-F from Finder, and type in the name of one of your pictures.

scathe #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 12, 2009 Location: Prague, Czech Republic Posts: 1,096 Mac Specs: 2,4Ghz 15" unibody	03-30-2009, 11:22 AM I don't understand what you mean by not finding and then finding your pictures anyway, is it by any means possible that you logged in on a different account? this way you wouldn't get acces to files of a different user I doubt that the files are hidden, it's not hard to look at hidden files, but these are mostly hidden for a reason(!) ... to see hidden files type "ls -a" or better "ls -laF" in Terminal in each folder, there is a way to make Finder see hidden files, but I advise against that ... either way you would have to rename all your files to add a period in the beginning to make them hidden, so the problem is elsewhere Last edited by scathe; 03-30-2009 at 11:27 AM.
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OhMyDays #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 30, 2009 Posts: 2	03-30-2009, 10:07 AM Hi. I have got a problem: I recently changed my harddisc to a 250GB. Everything worked out fine. One day I went to change my desktop picture, when suddenly I could not find the pictures. I checked their location in Finder and found them. I restarted my Mac, but when i then opened Finder all of my pictures, movies and music was gone. I have searched my entire computer, but they are not there. All the programs I installed and my opdates were there, but not the files. 75GB of my 250GB is still occupied though. This, I reckon, might be the files. Can anybody help me? (Not the Apple Support in Denmark) Regards
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hughvane #4 (permalink)
Member Since: May 18, 2008 Location: Banks Peninsula, New Zealand Posts: 3,244 Mac Specs: MacMini 2.4, 4 Gb, OS 10.6.8; MacBook 2.4, 2 Gb, OS 10.5.8; G4 eMac 1.25, 2 Gb, OS 10.4.11	03-30-2009, 03:37 PM FileBuddy is an excellent application for showing hidden files. I agree with scathe, files are hidden for good reason, so be careful. Try using Cmd-F from Finder, and type in the name of one of your pictures.
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