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arthurp
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response 86 of 127:
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Nov 30 09:40 UTC 2005 |
Seems like the file name may have special characters in it that are not
being properly handled by the cleanup script. If I have a file named
"-rf /"
and I can get some administrative task to pass that as a command line
input to the 'rm' command, we have something to look at. If the admin
task correctly tokenizes my file name, then the 'rm' program will remove
it. If the admin task fails to correctly pass it, then I may be able to
get the task to recursively '-r', forced '-f' remove files starting at
'/'. A huge problem. I leave it as an excercise for the reader how to
create a file named "-rf /".
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rcurl
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response 87 of 127:
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Nov 30 17:30 UTC 2005 |
I'm not even sure what of that is a file name. If I go to the last directory,
say printing.523, and list it, I get
[Rane-Curls-Computer:/private/_tmp_/printing.523] ranecurl% ls -al
ls: Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows
why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad
Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues
Article Series- justi#14D6A.prvw: No such file or directory
ls: Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows
why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad
Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues
Article Series- justi#14D6B.pset: No such file or directory
total 0
drwx------ 4 ranecurl wheel 136 30 Nov 12:18 .
drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 374 22 Oct 2004 ..
So, what is all that gibberish starting with ls: Preview.... ? It certainly
isn't files in the directory.
Do you think it would resolve the problem (with that directory) if I
emptied it? If so...how do I do that? It's not as those are files I can rm.
As far as I know, I don't even need those directories "printing.523.x".
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arthurp
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response 88 of 127:
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Dec 2 09:42 UTC 2005 |
If you go to _tmp_ and try to 'rm -rf printing.523' it probably says it
can't remove the dir because it's not empty?
Have you done an fsck on this?
From inside printing.523 does 'echo *' show anything?
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rcurl
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response 89 of 127:
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Dec 2 20:16 UTC 2005 |
Yup, it says it isn't empty.
echo * inside printing.523 yields tcsh: echo: No match.
I don't know how to use fsck in this circumstance.
Is there a way to empty a directory from outside it?
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gull
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response 90 of 127:
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Dec 13 20:59 UTC 2005 |
rm -r directoryname
If it complains you may also need the -f switch, which overrides some
safeguards. (The "f" stands for "force.")
I'm a little suspicious that printing.523 isn't actually a directory,
but rather a file that has become marked as a directory due to some
kind of filesystem error. In UNIX, directories are just a special type
of file.
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rcurl
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response 91 of 127:
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Dec 14 02:02 UTC 2005 |
I took this discussion to agora as there is a bigger crowd there. So I
have tried rm -rf <directory>. Didn't work. But if printing.523 *isn't*
meant to be a directory, how do I make it what it was meant to be (a file).
Here is an ls of the directory in which it is:
drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 374 22 Oct 2004 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 7 Sep 23:54 ..
drwx------ 3 ranecurl wheel 102 21 Oct 2004 .KerberosLogin-501
drwx------ 3 ranecurl wheel 102 21 Oct 2004 501
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 652 21 Oct 2004 mcx_compositor
drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 102 21 Oct 2004 printers
drwx------ 4 ranecurl wheel 136 2 Dec 15:06 printing.523
drwx------ 5 ranecurl wheel 170 22 Oct 2004 printing.523.1
drwx------ 5 ranecurl wheel 170 22 Oct 2004 printing.523.2
srwxrw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 21 Oct 2004 slp_ipc
drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 238 22 Oct 2004 tmp
There appear to be five directories created recently (Oct 2004), but
I don't know how. Only the printing.523.x directories show up as error
when cleaning with OnyX. The one in question got modified in some fashion
while I've been fooling around with it so it has the recent date (but
I can't tell you what specific action did that). I presume "root" are those
created on an installation (I may have upgraded to OS 10.3.9).
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gull
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response 92 of 127:
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Dec 16 05:05 UTC 2005 |
I assume you've already run a disk check? (I don't know what OS X calls
it...probably Disk First Aid.)
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arthurp
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response 93 of 127:
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Dec 16 07:59 UTC 2005 |
fsck won't want to run on a mounted file system. I don't know how to
tell OS X that it should force an fsck on next reboot. On my linux
there is /.autofsck to control this. Also shutdown(8) has a switch to
force it. I suspect man 8 shutdown should be your starting point.
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rcurl
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response 94 of 127:
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Jul 12 18:28 UTC 2006 |
Re #s85ff: I solved the problem, with help from
http://forums.macosxhints.com/index.php. The problem was that the long
garbage after the find: in #85 above isn't *in* the file, it is the *name*
of the file, which choked OnyX. What I finally did was sudo'd the folder
_tmp_ to my desktop, renamed the files with the long names, moved them to
trash, and emptied trash. It did not work to empty trash without first
renaming the files. I could then sudo _tmp_ back into its directory (for
whatever good that is - everything seems to work find without it there).
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rcurl
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response 95 of 127:
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Jul 12 18:36 UTC 2006 |
New problem: is there any way to stop OSX from sorting files in a folder
alphabetically? Usually I like files alphabetical, but this time I
transferred the contents of two digital camera cards to the desktop, and
wanted to append the files in one to the end of the list of files in the
other. The file (image) names were, however, overlapping between the two
cards, so when I copied and pasted, the files got mixed in, since the
automatic file naming on the two cards significantly overlapped. In fact,
I am not even sure the files on the one card appeared in the folder on the
desktop in their original order. (I had taken the camera battery out to
recharge it, which caused the file naming on the card and date to change,
and I forgot to reset the date for a few images.)
SO... how do I transfer the files from the card to a folder on my desktop,
and append files from two cards, keeping their original order? Or, in
general, how can I create a folder so the files are in the order I place
them there rather than being automatically alphabetized?
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gull
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response 96 of 127:
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Jul 12 21:38 UTC 2006 |
You can probably sort by date instead of by filename. I'm not sure how
to do it in OS X, though. It may be as easy as clicking the column
heading.
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rcurl
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response 97 of 127:
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Jul 13 02:14 UTC 2006 |
Whaddayouknow! It works! Why isn't that in Mac Help? But this still doesn't
solve my problem totally. I would like the files in the same order as on the
card *regardless* of the name or date or whatever associated with each. For
example, for the images for which I had not reset the date, it was recorded
as the date the camera was made (or thereabouts).
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gull
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response 98 of 127:
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Jul 14 17:47 UTC 2006 |
I don't think you're going to be able to preserve the file order when
copying from once device to another. Even on a single device it's not
always consistent. For example, on a DOS filesystem, if you delete a
file in the middle of the directory, the next file you create may very
well take that "slot" and end up in the middle.
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rcurl
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response 99 of 127:
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Jul 14 18:58 UTC 2006 |
Pretty crumby design.... One should have the option to set the default
file sort for every folder or volume. However I am getting around the
problem by downloading the camera card with the camera software: this
renames all the files in an order corresponding to the order on the card -
which is not automatically sorted by the camera. However downloaded the
files from the two cards (to separate folders) both start with PIC00001.
Now to try to append one onto the other....
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rcurl
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response 100 of 127:
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May 21 16:37 UTC 2007 |
How does one save the configuration (SSID and WEP) for future connection
of a Mac laptop to a wireless base station?
I can connect, but could not find the way to save the configuration for
later connections.
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gull
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response 101 of 127:
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Aug 22 16:54 UTC 2007 |
Let it add the info to your keyring.
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rcurl
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response 102 of 127:
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Aug 22 18:53 UTC 2007 |
How is that done? If you can tell me, I can try it the next time that Mac
laptop is available to me (in a week or so).
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gull
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response 103 of 127:
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Aug 22 18:59 UTC 2007 |
It's been a while since I did it, so I don't remember. I think it was a
checkbox or a dialog query when I first signed on the the secured network.
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rcurl
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response 104 of 127:
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Aug 23 05:32 UTC 2007 |
I looked for that but nothing was apparent.
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rcurl
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response 105 of 127:
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Sep 5 19:47 UTC 2007 |
A game application that I used now and then stopped working. When clicked
on, the icon "exploded" as usual, and a spinning wait icon appeared, but
then everything stopped and the app did not open. Thinking the app had
gotten damaged, I download a new one, but that did exactly the same thing.
Therefore the problem appears to be in my OS 10.3.9 system.
I therefore downloaded the 19.3.9 installer again, and ran it. I had
expected that it would give me a dialog because I was reinstalling it on
top of the same installed system. But it went ahead, and installed it.
However doing so did not help the game app to work: it failed to open in
exactly the same manner.
In hunting for info on the Apple site for reinstallation, I found mention
of reinstalling with an "erase and install", but no explanation or
instructions for that.
Should I have done something different to reinstall a fresh copy of the
system?
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rcurl
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response 106 of 127:
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Sep 7 18:31 UTC 2007 |
Further to #105: my cosole.log file contains the following after I try to upen
the subject game:
Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
2007-09-07 14:01:26 -0400
2007-09-07 14:02:46.905 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: uncaught
exception NSInvalidArgumentException (*** -[NSCFDictionary
setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value)
2007-09-07 14:02:46.905 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: exception
= *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil
value
2007-09-07 14:02:46.906 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava:
terminating.
Does this offer any clues as to how I could correct the fault?
I have discovered from further reading that reinstalling the 10.3.9
upgrade does not replace the current System, and whatever bug there is in
it that causes the problem. I need to use an install disc, which could do
an "archive and install", a function not in the upgrade. I can buy such an
10.3.5 install disk on Ebay, and then would have to upgrade and update to
10.3.9 with downloads.
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rcurl
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response 107 of 127:
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Oct 7 20:46 UTC 2007 |
(Must not be many Mac users listening in here. But just in case.....)
Does Mac OSX "Tiger" (10.4) support the Classic interface? I am running
10.3.9, which does, but I could not find any mention of Classic (9.2.2) in
the Tiger user's guide.
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nharmon
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response 108 of 127:
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Oct 8 12:20 UTC 2007 |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Classic Interface" really a
dual-boot setup?
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rcurl
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response 109 of 127:
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Oct 8 14:09 UTC 2007 |
Not sure what "dual boot" means, but one can choose the startup sys in the
System Preferences in OS 10.3. Also, in OS 10.3, if one starts an OS 9
app, "classic" starts up automatically. There is also a OS 9 menu in the
menu bar. Does OS 10.4 have those?
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gull
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response 110 of 127:
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Oct 8 19:15 UTC 2007 |
10.4 supports the Classic environment on PPC Macs, but not on Intel Macs.
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