Sep 06, 2011 Unlike Windows Explorer, you cannot view meta tag information of a file, change access privileges and visibility in Mac OS X Finder. To change sharing and access permission and view meta information of items in Finder, Mac OS X users need to open Get Info dialog separately which makes it quite tiresome when multiple files properties are to be dealt with. Helps you effortlessly toggle between showing and hiding hidden files in the Mac OS X Finder with a simple click of a mouse button Show All Files is free and simple OS X utility that enables you to. I enabled display of hidden files (via Invisibility Toggler), but they still don't appear in those locations, nor a search, with or without an initial dot before the name 'Sound.prefpane', for example. InVisible is a free menu bar application that lets you easily work with the hidden files of your OS. InVisible also allows you to show/hide your desktop icons with a single click - perfect for.
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I just noticed an new folder on my desktop. It contains 3.56 GB for 5334 items per Command-I. iPhoto tells me I have 5,395 photos in it, so these numbers might be related.
A cursory peek at its files revealed nothing Icould understand. I don't own an iPod (although I do own an iPhone.)
I did invoke an app named 'Invisibility Toggler' a couple of days ago. It makes invisible files visible until you run it again. But I've run it before and noticed no anomalies. I'm grasping at straws here.
Do you know what might be the purpose of this folder and where it is supposed to go?
--Gil
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Original iPhone
Posted on Aug 22, 2012 9:18 AM
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Stephen Withers
Rich Cruse wrote:
'Be sure you have *at least* 10% free space on your boot drive.'
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I've seen this assertion before, but I don't recall ever reading an explanation of why 10% is the magic number, or why you might need more free space (in absolute terms) on a larger drive.
If you're still using a 40G drive, then I agree that going below 4G of free space on a cold start could lead to problems as the swap files grow, leaving next to no free space. I once completely ran out of disk space, and it wasn't pretty, so yes, that situation is to be avoided.
But if you've got a 500G drive, why should you need to leave at least 50G free? That's more space than was ever available on that old 40G drive.
'Open Disk Utility and Verify you hard drive and Verify Permissions - repair them if needed.'
Wouldn't it be quicker and simpler to do a permissions repair pass straight away?
[Your point about a percentage vs. absolute free space approach is a good one, but I think the key here is to make sure that more-than-ample free space is reserved for, as you say, virtual memory, as well as other critical operating system functions, because Mac OS X seems incapable of dealing effectively with an out-of-space condition, potentially leading to disastrous results (inability to boot, lost data, etc.). And, as far as the multi-step permissions repair goes, I personally like to see a report before telling the utility to go ahead and do the repair, in case it shows something unusual and/or potentially dangerous to the data. Of course a good, complete backup is a smart prerequisite prior to any operations like this. -Ric Ford]