A folder called 'private' has appeard in my root folder out of nowhere..

It has the following folders in it... etc,tftpboot, var and tmp.
any idea what this is all about?

Neerav

MacBook 5,1, Mac OS X (10.6.4), iOS 4.1

Posted on Sep 12, 2010 7:39 AM

19 replies

jsd2

Level 5

6,245 points

Sep 15, 2010 7:33 AM in response to andyBall_uk

Mine does:

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$ ls -ldO@ /private
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel hidden 204 Nov 4 2009 /private
com.apple.FinderInfo 32
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etresoft

Level 9

56,692 points

Sep 15, 2010 7:43 AM in response to AceNeerav

Perhaps Disk Utility's Repair Permissions will help?

andyBall_uk

Level 7

20,516 points

Sep 15, 2010 7:46 AM in response to jsd2

ah, my mistake, You're quite right .

AceNeerav Author

Level 2

150 points

Sep 15, 2010 7:48 AM in response to andyBall_uk

i'm not sure if it absolutely must have the hidden flag to be hidden, but, private never used to be visible.

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