Invisible volumes? Please help!

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Invisible volumes? Please help!

Hi all,

I am using Azureus to download some (legit) live recordings, and I ran in to an interesting problem.

first, let me state that I use an external Firewire drive to save downloads to.

When I first set up azureus, I set my save directory to my usual downloads folder - or so I thought. As it turns out, the save dialog in Azureus shows TWO copies of my external hard drive. 1 is listed as "My extra Stuff" and has the usual FW drive icon. The other says "My extra Stuff 1" and has a 'network alias' icon. I can only get to this "phantom extra stuff 1 drive' through azureus, and only through My_Computer--->Volumes--->My Extra Stuff 1.

I cannot find the file in the finder or through Spotlight. But it has completed the download, and is still sharing. I have since fixed the save directory, but would like to find this mysterious file (and understand what happened).

Any help is appreciated.

thanks,

ScottieB

Posted on Oct 12, 2005 10:26 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 13, 2005 2:05 AM in response to ScottieB

Hi ScottieB,
since Spotlight doesn't index or search invisible files, couldn't you search with an app that does, like Easy Find?
http://www.grunenberg.com/download.html

Can you navigate to the drive through Terminal?
cd /Volumes/My\ Extra\ Stuff\ 1/

Best of luck!

/Max

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Answer 2

ScottieB Author

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Oct 13, 2005 9:41 AM in response to Max Ingman1

Perhaps I can navigate via terminal - but since I almost never use terminal (and when I do I have the commands typed out for me line by line) I wouldn't know how to do it... how do you navigate, copy, and delete a file in Terminal?

Thanks,
ScottieB

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Answer 3

Oct 13, 2005 9:57 AM in response to ScottieB

ScottieB,

There are a lot of tips and info on OSXFAQ and then there is the Bash-Scripting Guide.

HTH,
Lee C

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Answer 4

mrp777

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Nov 14, 2005 9:13 PM in response to ScottieB

I am having the exact same problem. I was using Azureus and I usually save to an external firewire drive. I accidentally unplugged the firewire drive while Azureus was downloading and ever since then, it created a "Volume" labeled "Firewire 1". I can view the contents of it in Azureus and if I click Finder|Go, and then type "Firewire 1". Otherwise, the volume is invisible. Have you figured out how to correct this problem?

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Answer 5

hyphen

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Nov 15, 2005 2:01 AM in response to ScottieB

Hi all

Please launch the terminal application (inside /Application/Utilities) and paste the following:

ls -aol /Volumes

Press return

Could please post the outcome in this thread?

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Answer 6

Jan 17, 2006 1:35 PM in response to hyphen

I would of posted my outcome when i had this problem. but since then i have reformatted. but here is what came up if this is any consolence
total 12
drwxrwxrwt 8 root admin - 272 Jan 16 17:56 .
drwxrwxr-t 29 root admin - 1088 Jan 13 08:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 16 christia christia - 646 Dec 27 16:46 Christian Miles???s iPod
drwxrwxrwx 4 christia christia - 136 Jan 3 23:47 IBIZA_EXPERIENCE
drwxrwxrwx 27 christia christia - 1020 Dec 21 12:55 Macintosh HD3
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Jan 13 08:37 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx 33 root admin - 1224 Jan 15 16:34 Macintosh HD partition
drwxrwxrwx 41 christia christia - 1496 Jan 15 03:35 Macintosh HD2
christian-miles-ibook-g4:~ christianmiles$

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Answer 7

Jan 28, 2006 11:07 PM in response to Christian Miles

ok well now that it is messed up again, here is my output of the code, how do i delete this invisible hard drive now?
Last login: Tue Jan 17 15:33:27 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
christian-miles-ibook-g4:~ christianmiles$ ls -aol /Volumes
total 8
drwxrwxrwt 9 root admin - 306 Jan 29 00:25 .
drwxrwxr-t 29 root admin - 1088 Jan 13 08:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 christia admin - 136 Jan 29 00:30 Kahuna
drwxrwxrwx 29 christia christia - 1088 Jan 24 22:32 Kahuna 1
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin - 1 Jan 13 08:37 Macintosh HD -> /
drwxrwxrwx 32 root admin - 1190 Jan 25 10:16 Macintosh HD partition
drwxrwxrwx 41 christia christia - 1496 Jan 15 03:35 Macintosh HD2
drwxr-xr-x 12 christia christia - 408 Jan 28 2005 Zero Hour

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