invisible items on mac?
[153 byte] By [Impulse29] at [2007-11-9 12:21:52] 
On the previous iPod's, you could do a search for invisible items, and a lot would come up... on the new one, i can't see anything... Why not??
# 1 Re: invisible items on mac?
OS 10.2 allowed users to use the Finder to find invisible files on the iPod, but Apple changed this with the first update of OS X. You can still find invisible files on the iPod if you use the Terminal.eustacescrubb at 2007-11-15 17:22:24 >
# 2 Re: invisible items on mac?
Do you know any commands that will let me do this? I'm not too good with the terminalImpulse29 at 2007-11-15 17:23:35 >
# 3 Re: invisible items on mac?
Download Cocktail - which is free - and you can make your invisible files visible.jmk at 2007-11-15 17:24:34 >
# 4 Re: invisible items on mac?
If you want to find music files on your iPod, do this: find /Volumes/lucy/iPod_Control/Music/ -name '*m4a' -type f
(or use *mp3 is you don't use AACs). ("lucy" is my iPod's name)
This will return a list of files like this:
/Volumes/lucy/iPod_Control/Music//F19/Were Once.m4a
/Volumes/lucy/iPod_Control/Music//F19/Where I End And You Begin -.m4a
/Volumes/lucy/iPod_Control/Music//F19/Why Not Smile.m4a
Except much longer. To move any of them, use
cp -R file location file destination
where file location is one of the entires returned from your search (e.g.: /Volumes/lucy/iPod_Control/Music//F19/Why Not Smile.m4a) and file destination is where you want it go (e.g.: /Volumes/harddrive/users/you/Music/iTunes/)
For any of the strings containing file paths, it's important to deal with space like so - if you have a space (like say you iPod's name is "Impulse Pod") you need to preface the space with "\\" (so in our example, "Impulse Pod" would be "Impulse\\ Pod")
eustacescrubb at 2007-11-15 17:25:28 >
# 5 Re: invisible items on mac?
Originally posted by jmk Download Cocktail - which is free - and you can make your invisible files visible.
Yep.
Cocktail works great. And, it does a lot of other cool stuff besides making invisible file visible.
Highly recommended.
Tom
tntracy at 2007-11-15 17:26:37 >
# 6 Re: invisible items on mac?
Is there a utility similar to Cocktail available for OS X 10.1, to be able to see invisible files?Galwegian19 at 2007-11-15 17:27:36 >
# 7 Re: invisible items on mac?
I use Tinkertool - also free! Works fantastic - get it from macupdate.comginalee at 2007-11-15 17:28:40 >
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