[X Newbies] Disk Utility

Robert Ameeti robert at ameeti.net
Mon Jan 19 11:56:30 PST 2004


>On Monday, Jan 19, 2004, at 13:54 Canada/Eastern, Robert Ameeti wrote:
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>>>[...] Find File in OSX does not search in the System folder. You must specifically select that under the pulldown menu. Choose "specific places".
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>>Why would it matter that Find File does not look in the System folder? [...]
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>David's original statement is non-sense. Of course it does. However, Find won't search (or isn't supposed to search) directories for which the user has insufficient privileges. To test this, search in "Everywhere" for "file name contains 'library'". If you have privileges to the System directory (admin), you'll find plenty of items located therein.
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Admin does not have privileges for file in the System folder. That would be owned by root.

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