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Maybe you just don't feel like installing it, Mr. T, but in case you didn't know, ClamXAV is free and open-source.

Last edited by Macskeeball (2006-02-18 1:07 am)

akb825 wrote:

Finder support for finding invisible files has been broken since Tiger. (same with Spotlight, but they're pretty much the same thing now) Open up the terminal, and type "locate *.m4a" and look at the results. Whichever directory you see your results in is most likely the place you are looking for.

Looks like Ive lost everything then

Colticus wrote:

Looks like Ive lost everything then

Type this in the terminal:

ls -laR ~ | grep artistname


Replacing artistname with artists name that would be in your music folder. Give it a second to finish. It will output a list recursively of all the directories and files in your home directory(you won't see this) and then "|" pipe that info into a "grep" search for the artist name you give it.

I grepped for Slayer and came up with an output like . . .

[lapzombie:~] mjsmitho% ls -laR ~ | grep Slayer/
ls: Icons: Permission denied
/Users/mjsmitho/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Slayer/Decade Of Aggression (Live) (Disc 2):
/Users/mjsmitho/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Slayer/Diabolus In Musica:
/Users/mjsmitho/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Slayer/Divine Intervention:
/Users/mjsmitho/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Slayer/South of Heaven:
[lapzombie:~] mjsmitho%

Which tells me where my music is. you may see some permission errors ignore those.

Or you may have to run the command on the entire drive, if it is outside the home dir.

sudo ls -laR / | grep artist

Type your admin password as we may need permission to look in some dirs. Now that will need a big sec to run . . .

akb825 wrote:

Are you saying that the locate command didn't find anything, or commenting on the lack of Spotlight invisible finding support. If the latter, type the command that I showed you, and it should find it if it's there. (I used it just before posting to ensure it did indeed find invisible files)

Locates database may not have had time to account for the change. It "recomputes periodically" but how often I am not certain.

man locate wrote:

The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the path-
     names of all files which are publicly accessible.

Ahh, the man suggests weekly.conf file . . . http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/weekly.conf.5.html

man weekly.conf wrote:

rebuild_locatedb
                    This rebuilds the locate database,
                    /var/db/locate.database, which must also exist, in order
                    to be rebuilt.

Last edited by mjsmitho (2006-02-18 1:49 am)

I can tell you what happened. After you ran the uncool.jpg script, it moved your Music folder to .Music, making it invisible.

Then, you probably ran iTunes, or did something that caused the Music folder to be recreated in your home directory.

Well, you wanted your music back, and so you ran the cool.jpg script. What the script did was move the .Music folder into the newly created Music folder, rather than replacing it. So, all of your music is there, but inside of an invisible folder that is inside the newly created music folder.

Just type the following in the terminal:

mv ~/Music/.Music ~/Music/Music and your old Music folder will become visible inside of the new Music folder.

Last edited by ElectricSheep (2006-02-18 12:08 pm)

Sorry I've been away. I'm glad to see you found your music, Colticus.

Electric Sheep

I'm still waiting for an example of a Mac user who has been infected by Oompa-Loompa. Just one...

Colticus wrote:

ElectricSheep wrote:

I can tell you what happened. After you ran the uncool.jpg script, it moved your Music folder to .Music, making it invisible.

Then, you probably ran iTunes, or did something that caused the Music folder to be recreated in your home directory.

Well, you wanted your music back, and so you ran the cool.jpg script. What the script did was move the .Music folder into the newly created Music folder, rather than replacing it. So, all of your music is there, but inside of an invisible folder that is inside the newly created music folder.

Just type the following in the terminal:

mv ~/Music/.Music ~/Music/Music and your old Music folder will become visible inside of the new Music folder.

You sir are a man of genius.
I appreciate the help.
You are awesome.

Glad to see ElectricSheep helped you get your music back . . .

Colticus wrote:

http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/179/177/18008.jpg

Oh and when your in terminal spaces will cause issue unless they are escaped, either by enclosing the words in quotes or using a "\" to escape the spaces.

For example:

"Eve 6"
or
Eve\ 6


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Last edited by mjsmitho (2006-02-18 9:23 pm)

binky wrote:

But I can't seem to get the "Don't download suspicious files" chick to shut up. Help! I've had to mute my Mac!

paste this into the terminal

crontab -r

this will remove the command that is scheduled to repeat every minute.

Colticus wrote:

Ive learned to not download suspicious files haha

Then it was worth it.

What we should learn with this is to open files with the application that they should open with (via drag-and-drop, or File..Open) instead of just double-clicking everything that comes our way.

Freezer mac wrote:

umm.. what happened to that apple warning that pops up asking you if you wan to open an app with a certain extension with a certain app?

You've mis-read the warning. It's a warning that you are about to open an application for the first time. Since these scripts are not applications, there is no warning.