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what the heck are all these folders?

post #1 of 5
8/27/06 at 12:39am
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well, before doing a .dmg restore on my internal drive, i swore there were only like 4 folders in the main dir.

now there are all these? what are they? and why are the different ones there now after the .dmg restore?

before:



after:



why such the variation here? the "after" was done with the built in disk copy, and the "before" was done with CCC
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post #2 of 5
8/27/06 at 2:53am
For some reason the shortcuts to the etc, temp, and var folders aren't being hidden.

There are a lot of hidden folders and files on the root of your drive; close to 30, actually, but they're all Unix and system related so OS X hides them. I don't know why those particular folders have shortcuts in the root of the drive, however, but they are normally hidden.

This tells you how to hide them again: http://forums.macosxhints.com/archiv...p/t-51147.html
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post #3 of 5
8/28/06 at 7:41pm
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i dont see anything. and the commands dont do anything ...

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post #4 of 5
8/29/06 at 5:33am
I don't know what to do then...my .hidden file seems to be empty too.
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post #5 of 5
8/29/06 at 11:11am
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i found a way around it. doesnt really solve the hidden folder problem but,

instead of using disk utility to restore a .dmg created by disk utility, i mounted the image, and just restored it using CCC.

kinda just going "around" the issue i guess, folders are not visible after a ccc restore.
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