On May 5, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Poulpette Delamare <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> macports-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users > > 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! Correct. The default in Spotlight is visible files only. Cheers! Frank _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
