Le 04/05/2013 21:15, Frank Schima a écrit :
On May 4, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
On May 4, 2013, at 06:25, Poulpette Delamare wrote:
Well… well well well. Yes, now that you said that, I figure out how stupid I’ve
been.
I’ve only been using Mac OS X for a couple of days now and still don’t understand
everything (how folders are stored, etc.). On Linux, yes, I knew that Pidgin logs are in
"~/.purple" which is really easy to find (Ctrl+H in the user directory to see
hidden files and folders and here we go… which… doesn’t work on Mac OS), but I just
couldn’t find anything on Mac OS X (I used Spotlight to make several researches). I
should have tried to look for the same path, first, but I just didn’t think about it.
Spotlight does not show all files. It only shows files Apple thinks normal users want to
see. Apple does not think normal users want to see hidden files, system files, etc. For
that reason, I seldom use Spotlight; I usually use "locate" in the terminal.
If you want the Finder to show you hidden files (as I do), you can enable that
capability using a hidden Finder setting (a setting Apple created but did not
expose in the OS X GUI because they didn't think normal users wanted to do
that). I use TinkerTool to alter those hidden settings.
This is no longer true in Mountain Lion. Apple has exposed searching all files in Spotlight. In
particular, you can search for "visible or invisible" files now as an option. Plus under
"other…" you can add pretty much anything including system files. I don't know why they
never advertised this as a feature in ML.
Cheers!
Frank
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So if I wasn’t able to find the logs, that was because the option for
searching invisible files and directories was probably disabled? I’ll
try what you told me to do. Thanks for the information!
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