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HELP: My User directory became a "package" and "invisible"
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Somehow... I was using SheepShaver... and it can access the user directory from inside the MacOS 8.6 emulation... but now my User directory is no longer a directory! It says it's a "package" and it won't open! Further my HD now says it has Zero K available, even though I just deleted a bunch of files!
I ran Disk Utility but it found no errors on the drive!
Help me! I'm freakin' out here. How do I make it not a package anymore? I already made it visible but it's still a "package"... help!!
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Oh yeah I'm using 10.4.10
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AppleCare tells me I have to reformat my drive. Surely there's a better solution???
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Control-click, show package contents?
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Originally Posted by chris v
Control-click, show package contents?
Nah I just booted from another drive that has developer tools installed, and I did a terminal command that sets the flag that changes it back to a folder from a package. If you need to know what it is, I can post it here, don't remember off-hand. It was in the discussions.apple.com boards.
-=DG=-
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If there is a terminal command to switch from one to the other I think this would be a great OSX user April Fools Day joke
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24" AlumiMac 2.4ghz C2D, 4g Ram, 300g HD, 750g USBHD • 80g iPod • 160g ATV • iPhone 3g
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Originally Posted by swiz
If there is a terminal command to switch from one to the other I think this would be a great OSX user April Fools Day joke
Oh dear. Well, there IS a terminal command to do it, but it's ... you have to have the developer tools installed to do it.
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Why keep everyone in suspense?
If you ran into the problem others could and by posting it here, others can search on it
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