On May 5, 2013, at 2:00 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? I played around with it for a while. It does appear to be buggy and does not reliably work. I tried rebuilding the Spotlight index with Onyx and had some success. I tried prefixing with and without the ".". I was sometimes able to find invisible folders or files, but never files inside invisible folders. Maybe this is why they don't advertise this! :) Cheers! Frank _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
