[G4] Invisible .Trashes

[Fred Thiel]

>Am 29.08.2008 um 23:09 schrieb Fred Thiel:
>
>>I've been transferring some music files in 9.2.2 iTunes in my 
>>Quicksilver 733. Somehow, the destination for my music files was 
>>changed to an invisible folder named 502 inside an invisible 
>>.Trashes inside my music folder. I don't know how it  
>>happened, but I wonder if it would be safe to make the .Trashes 
>>visible with ResEdit and try to retrieve the music files. I 
>>wouldn't mind re-loading them, but they take up several GB of 
>>space. Anyone know if this would be possible without doing some 
>>damage, they make files invisible for a reason and I really don't 
>>want to risk damaging anything.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Fred
>
>To my knowledge, those belong to OS X.. Do they not show up in your 
>OS X's trash? Do you have OS X on there? All I can tell is that 
>there are OS X hidden directories, and it seems you're using OS 9 to 
>do all the file moving, right? I say make them visible and do as you 
>like with the data, and as long as your filesystem isn't reported 
>bad by Disk Utility or Drive Setup, everything should be golden. No 
>idea why your files are mysteriously going into those hidden 
>folders, though.
>
>Eric W.

I Do have 10.4.11 on a different partition and the files were in its 
trash. I just transferred them back to the right place and 
everything's OK except for the matter of how the heck the prefs got 
changed to the way it was in the first place. Thanks for the help.

Fred

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