OK, I have never opened Terminal App, interesting, it opened with a page titled Terminal-Bash-80x24
On this page it has 3 lines of text, but the cursor is not active on this page to enter anything, so I looked under Files menu and see something called New Shell and New Command, are one of these where I enter ? cd "/Volumes/<rest of the name>" The folder is within my boot OS10.3.9 partition, and looking at its contents I see it has iTunes and iPhoto material from last year I would like to re-capture - rather than just trash thanks much, Del > > This will take some terminal work. > > Find the full name of the folder holding this file (if it is a partion > separate from your boot partition, this will start with /Volumes/...). > Inventory X should be able to show you this. > > Start /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and type: > > cd "/Volumes/<rest of the name>" > > Be EXACT. Spelling, case, and spaces count! Include the " marks and > substitute the rest of the name for <rest of the name> > > Once you've done that hit enter. > > Now type: > > ls -al > > and hit enter. > > Copy and paste everything that shows up and send it to us here. It > will take a bit of detective work to determine the exact name of this > folder (It only looks like it's called ".", the most likely suspect is > that it's called ". " a period followed by a space.) > > Then we can give you the terminal command to safely delete it. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
