8 Dec
2010
8 Dec
'10
2:58 p.m.
On 2010 Dec 8, at 12:49 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
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:
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. 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.