Hi Adam, Just to add to what Ronni said Terminal is very powerful and lets you do all manner of things, however sometimes I find it easier to check out various hidden file using the Finder.
The trick here is to add ³File Visibility² to the list of finder search criteria to do this invoke the find command in finder and then in the pull-down search criteria list (probably showing ³kind² by default) select ³other² and a box will slide open allowing you to ³Select a Search attribute² and, if you scroll down the list, you can find the entry: Attribute: File invisible Description: Whether the file is visible If you click the ³In menu² checkbox, next to this item, you will now have a new item ³File Visibility² in your pull-down menu. You can now do a finder search with the search set as ³File Visibility² is ³Invisible Items² to find this or any other invisible files. I find this feature very useful to track down these sorts of files particularly where you know there IS a hidden file related to something but don¹t remember the exact name. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 15/5/10 3:21 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote: > > On 15/05/2010, at 9:31 AM, Adam Lippiatt wrote: > >> >> Hi there >> >> I have been having a few permissions problems after a hard drive corrupted >> and was replaced. >> >> This is the latest one which I think is causing some bad behaviour in Mail. >> >> 15/05/10 9:28:35 AM Mail[234] Error writing to >> /Users/admin/Library/Mail/Mac-adam.lippiatt/.mboxCache.plist: Error >> Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 UserInfo=0x1299c26c0 "You don¹t have >> permission to save the file ³.mboxCache.plist² in the folder >> ³Mac-adam.lippiatt²." Underlying Error=(Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain >> Code=13 "The operation couldn¹t be completed. Permission denied") >> >> Unfortunately I can't find this file. No problem though - I just apply >> permissions to enclosed items. But, no luck with that either. > > Hi Adam, > > You need to delete the .mboxCache.plist. Why you can't find it is a hidden > file > > 1. Quit Mail and try this on the command line (Terminal.app) to find them: > 2. Open a Terminal window and paste this in: > > find ~/Library/Mail -name .\* > > It should only find cache files like '.DS_Store', '.mboxCache.plist', > '.OfflineCache', '.dontIndex', and '.index.ready'. > If so, and if everything is backed up, run: > > find ~/Library/Mail -name .\* -delete > > NB: Don't run this if the first listing looks like it's showing e-mails. I > also recommend checking that you have a backup first. > > 3.Now launch mail and select "Mailbox:Rebuild" from the menu. > > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 > 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm > > OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
