djon Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 Hi I just did a complete restore of my hard drive using Retrospect 6.1 (6.0.11.101) and everything went well except some formerly invisible folders are now visible. There are 3 aliases... etc, temp & var and are found on the root volume of my drive. I know that they are normally invisible but for some reason Retrospect has changed their visibility. I've tried to make them invisible again using FileBuddy but the Finder won't recognize the change. I've tried 2 restores now and I get the same result each time. Any idea why this is happening and any suggestions how to make them invisible again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 Quote: I just did a complete restore of my hard drive... <snip> I've tried 2 restores now... - Can you provide a step-by-step description of how you performed your Restore(s)? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ullistrator Posted December 1, 2007 Report Share Posted December 1, 2007 Quote: I've tried to make them invisible again using FileBuddy but the Finder won't recognize the change. Have you thought of restarting Finder after Restore/FileBuddying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djon Posted December 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Quote: - Can you provide a step-by-step description of how you performed your Restore(s)? Well, I wanted to correct a disk error in my hard drive so I backed up the entire drive to my external firewire drive using Retrospect then reformatted my hard drive then I restored everything with Retrospect. When restoring I chose "Restore An Entire Disk" as the restore method. The second time, I zeroed the hard drive when reformatting to make sure it was clean then Restored everything the same way with Retrospect. Unfortunately, I had the same results. The computer works fine and everything it's just I have these 3 stray (formerly invisible) folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djon Posted December 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Quote: Have you thought of restarting Finder after Restore/FileBuddying? Yeah, I tried restarting the Finder and restarting the computer but no luck. I think it's a permissions problem because these are Systems folders and probably don't like to be messed with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted December 2, 2007 Report Share Posted December 2, 2007 Quote: I backed up the entire drive to my external firewire drive using Retrospect then reformatted my hard drive then I restored everything with Retrospect - After you reformatted the HD, how did you boot the computer in advance of the Entire Disk Restore? That's a missing step that might help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djon Posted December 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Quote: - After you reformatted the HD, how did you boot the computer in advance of the Entire Disk Restore? I booted the computer from OS 10.4 that I had installed on my firewire drive. I don't know if this makes any difference or not but I'm not using the absolute latest RDU which I believe is 6.1.138. I'm using 6.1.11.101. I've tried many times to download the latest RDU but with my ancient dialup connection it never completely downloads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted December 3, 2007 Report Share Posted December 3, 2007 Quote: I booted the computer from OS 10.4 that I had installed on my firewire drive. If your Session was the complete hard drive, and you Restored to an erased partition, Retrospect should be able to Restore the drive with special tags such as visibility respected. > I've tried to make them invisible again using FileBuddy but the Finder won't recognize the change. Using FileBudy 9 on my Leopard install, neither the alias "/etc -> private/etc" nor the actual /etc directory have the Invisible tag enabled. Had you previously used any utilities that can configure the Finder to display invisible items, such as TinkerTool? Try running TinkerTool and toggling the file-invisibility setting, log out, log back, toggle back, log out/in, and see if there's a change. This might be a .plist issue. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djon Posted December 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Quote: Using FileBudy 9 on my Leopard install, neither the alias "/etc -> private/etc" nor the actual /etc directory have the Invisible tag enabled. Interesting. I guess there is some other tag that it uses to toggle visibility. Quote: Try running TinkerTool and toggling the file-invisibility setting, log out, log back, toggle back, log out/in, and see if there's a change. This might be a .plist issue. I've tried a couple of Visibility Togglers and they do a great job on all the invisible files except the 3 aliases in question, they just remain visible even after a log out or restart. Weird eh? Anyway, I'm just going to ignore them for now. When I'm able to download the latest RDU I'll try another restore and see what happens. I'd like to avoid a re-install via the System DVD because it takes forever to download all those system and application updates with a dialup connection. Thanks for your suggestions. djon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 What shows for ls -eloa for those files (and aliases)? Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djon Posted December 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Russ What is ls -eloa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 it is a unix command to list the contents of a folder with certain flags. In terminal, type: man ls to see the manual page. Then, after you have read that, in terminal, type: ls -eloa /etc /tmp i.e., ask for the attributes for all of the files that you see as problematic. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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