[Jordan]

Okay - I know this is the height of laziness....

I have two Macs - a desktop and a laptop.

On my desktop I have created a folder with various sensitive documents in it like passwords and financial info. (I know this is not the most secure way to do things but it keeps it from prying eyes...)

I was on my laptop in bed and wanted to get access to one of these passwords. Now I could have got out of bed and walked into the other room where the desktop was and opened the file through Terminal like I normally do, but I thought that there should be a way to access it from my laptop. Two hours later I still can't do it. Now it's a principle thing!!!!

Here's what I've tried.

Mounted other desktop drive on laptop through finder.
Open Terminal
navigate to Volumes then into desktop drive
I can see the folder called .Application Logging (my super secret name that will dissuade people from looking. yeah it won't keep too many people out but it's a start....)
If I cd to it it shows nothing inside although I know there are at least three documents.

Any clues as to how I can access this? I thought it might be something to do with sudo but I can't get that working either.

Appreciate the help from any Unix guru out there.

[PaperNotes]

Rename the folder.

mv .Application Application

That renames .Application to Application and makes it visible in the Finder.

[larrinski]

I was thinking that you should use the ls -a command. That lists the hidden folders.

[Jordan]

Sorry - should have been a bit clearer. It's not the invisibility that is the problem. I can see it in Terminal through the ls -las command.

I can't access it. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that I'm on a different computer and the permissions might be different...

[Simon]

How do you mount the remote volume? If you use afp and the user account on the remote Mac permissions should be the same as if you were sitting in front of that Mac.