[johnMG]

When I've got both OS 9 and OS X installed, and I boot into OS X, in which directory are all the files that I had stored on my desktop when running in (i.e. booting into) OS 9?

[ManOfSteal]

You should have a "Desktop (Mac OS 9)" folder alias on the root of your HD; however, if not...simply run a Finder search for "Desktop Folder" and make sure you are searching both visible and invisible items as "Desktop Folder" is an invisible folder on the root or your HD...

[johnMG]

Thanks manofsteal. Not sure how I missed that... I don't have the machine in front of me right now, but I'll take another look at "ls -a /" next time I'm in front of it.

My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I remember trying "find / -name 'some_file_on_OS9_desktop" and it not coming up with anything... Maybe I accidentally typed "find ." instead of "find /".

Well, thanks for the post. :)

[Apfhex]

Desktop Folder

Alternately you can, in the Finder, go to Go -> Go to Folder... (command shift g) and type /Desktop Folder.

[Brass]

It's at the root of the boot disk, but invisible.

You can create a link/alias to it on your Mac OS X desktop to make life easier in future.

ln -s "/Desktop Folder" ~/Desktop/OS9Desktop

or something like that

[johnMG]

Thanks folks.

Brass, you wrote that it's "invisible". Thanks. I didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize that OS X's finder makes certain files/directories hidden -- that is, besides the usual dotfiles.

According to my copy of the OS X nutshell book, looks like you can tell the Finder to show all hidden files/folders if you use the Property List Editor (/Developer/Applications) on your /Users/somebody/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist , and create a new AppleShowAllFiles Boolean item (if it's not already there) setting it to "Yes".

EDIT: A ha! /.hidden is supposed to contain a list of file and folders that the Finder will make hidden (regardless of their "invisible bit" (a la OS 9) or whether it's a dotfile or not (a la unix)).