Hello,
I found a hidden disk image that I hid. I can only see the image when using omni disk sweep. When I click on the disk nothing happens. There are 10gb of data on there I would like to acess. Using omni disk sweep it does give me the option it looks to erase the disk, but I would like to see inside not erase.
Any insight is greatly apreciated.
I have early 2008 macbook with snow lepord.
Cheers,
Bryce
MacBook
How did you hide it? Do just the opposite.
I hid using disk utility and password protected. I named it " .english_final.dmg" trying to make it very unlikely someone would come across the file. I may have selected option to make it not show up in search aswell. In disk utility I think I accidently pressed delete or something and it dissapeared but did not end up in trash. So i assumed it was gone forever until onmni sweep saw it.
is there a way using terminal to find it?
thanks
Well, unhiding the file may be easily done by renaming it by omitting the initial "dot/period." But if you've forgotten the password then you are pretty much out of luck.
How do I rename file? I can only see the file in omnisweep. I do know the password. I am unclear on your directions.
Thanks
Open the Terminal in your Utilities folder. Enter at the prompt:
sudo mv /path_to_file/.english_final.dmg /path_to_file/english_final.dmg
Press RETURN. Enter you admin password when prompted. It will not by echoed.
Substitute the path to where the file resides for path_to_file in the command line.
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