9 Dec
2010
9 Dec
'10
4:17 a.m.
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2010 Dec 8, at 12:49 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
I don't have Norton Utilities, but was able to lay my hands on a shareware
version of "Snitch" that supports a similar function. After a bit of
fumbling around (the author spent about 10x the effort on annoying pop-ups
requesting payment than he did on actually documenting how to use the
)(*^()*&^% thing) I was able to find and flip off the invisible bit.
I found the tool so annoying that I think I'll go after a copy of Norton
before considering a shareware payment.
Life is good now, at any rate.
Steve
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On 2010 Dec 8, at 4:11 AM, Steven Hirsch wrote:
I fired up an old Mac Performa 5300CD / MacOS 8.5 and installed Norton
Utilities from floppies (that was a nostalgic novelty: flipping floppy disks
from install prompts).
There is an "Is Invisible" flag for each file (bit 14 of the Finder Flags),
which does exactly what it suggests, and which can be toggled with Norton
Disk Editor. I don't know what other means there might be to toggle the flag.
I'm not sure this is the nature of the issue you have, so just FWIW ... On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Jason McBrien wrote:
If I'm following this correctly, a file - which you know exists - is not
showing up in the finder windows or desktop?
IIRC, there is a HIDDEN attribute for files in the old MacOS, which can be
accessed through something like ResEdit or the Norton Utilities.
I'd have to fire up an MacOS 9 machine to check and I'm not sure the
machine I could easily fire up has the utility to double-check the matter
installed. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Steven Hirsch
<snhirsch at gmail.com>
wrote:
> The MacUser directory is fine - both data and resource forks are as
> expected. However, no matter what I've tried 'Diagnostic1' simply does
> not
> show up in the finder. I'm sure it's something basic, but I'm not much
> of
> an ancient Mac guru.
Wild guess, but might be a custom folder icon that's having it's resource
fork blown away? Did you try rebuilding the desktop on the 68k machine?
I'm
not sure if it's possible, but you might try doing the same on the
netatalk
share.
Good thought, but there is no icon information in the netatalk metadata
(it has a dedicated file for desktop info). I believe this is something
much more basic.