It doesn't matter what folder it is in as long as yu type the path correctly. Yes, the names are case sensitive; you have to type them as they are.
-- Cheryl I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! Then God gave me a new heart and life: His joy for my despairing tears! And now, every day: "This I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) On Jan 6, 2015, at 7:58 PM, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: do the capital letters make any difference? I’ve got a music folder that’s in another folder because it was transferred into this computer from another one. I could probably pick up the contents and move it into the music folder that’s on this computer but it’s pretty large. > On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:14 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote: > > You can start with /Users (note the slash in front) but usually when you open > terminal you are in your home directory you can just start with the > directory. For instance from my home directory: > > open -a /Applications/VLC.app Music/Classical > > I made this up but this should give you an example. > > If this doesn't work, tell what the directory is and I can send you an exact > example to past into Terminal. Also remember that when typing you can tab to > have it complete. Fore example, once you type VL you can probably tab and it > will complete VLC.app but there will be a slash after that and no space so > you would have to space before typing the directory. The same with > /applications. You can type /App and do a tab and it should compete > /Applications with a slash after that and of course then you can start > VLC.app without spacing. Voiceover should echo enough for you to know what > you are doing. > > -- > Cheryl > > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper > thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His joy for my despairing tears! > And now, every day: > "This I call to mind, > and therefore I have hope: > The steadfast love of the Lord > never ceases; > his mercies never come to an end; > they are new every morning; > great is your faithfulness." > (Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > > > > > On Jan 5, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’m requesting a lesson in terminal. I followed Cheryl’s instructions about > how to open a music folder in vlc. I got the message “file does not exist”. > it’s a folder, but besides that I must have done the syntax incorrectly as > far as the path goes. do you start from users/ or before that? I wrote the > name of each folder with a slash in-between. what am I missing? > > Thanks. > Lorie > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
