Saturday, September 15. 2007
Nice Mac App: Pathfinder
| I have been using the nice Mac OSX Finder replacement: Pathfinder for several months now. It has many nice features, which includes a nice tabbed feature, superior layout, and it also easily allows you do operations on groups of files via the handy "drop stack" window. Today I inadvertently found another nice perk of Pathfinder. Somehow the "Invisible" attribute had been checked on my portable USB drive, which caused it to stop showing up on the desktop and in the OSX Finder, even though the drive was mounted as verified from the command line. Since there were no error messages in the system log, nor any issues when the drive was looked at in the Disk Utility, nor any permissions problems on the root level of the drive, I was temporarily stumped. Fortunately, the USB drive did show up in Pathfinder, enabling me to easily take a look at the attributes of the drive and correct the offending attribute.  Note: Here is a handy reference for being able to view and modify attributes from the command line (in case you don't have Pathfinder installed) (and here is the online man page for SetFile, since the link in above reference page is incorrect). |  |
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