On May 5, 2013, at 14:34, Frank Schima wrote: > On May 5, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Poulpette Delamare wrote: >> Le 04/05/2013 21:15, Frank Schima a écrit : >>> On May 4, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt 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. >> >> 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.
Even when I tell Spotlight to ignore file visibility, it doesn't show me the .purple folder when I search for "name:purple". Is this actually working for you? _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
