hotwheels 22
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Q: how to ShowAllFiles in terminal for "lost found" file

hi all,

 

i am trying to verify that i can delete two iNode files of 5 GB each on a mac air and i am not sure how to enter the commands in terminal correctly to view the files before deleting each of these.

 

for instance i am entering:

 

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles

 

and then hitting ENTER and i get the response "could not write to domain Users/....Preferences/com.apple.finder; exiting"

 

is this due to being out of disk space?

 

i have run out of disk space so i /have/ been getting various error messages about apps not being able to sync to my DROPBOX folder as the drive is out of space however i took a large amount of information off dropbox (onto my desktop) so i am a little curious as to why i am getting this error.

 

anyways, deleting these two files would help a lot.

 

THANKS

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 11 inch, early 2015, 2.2 GHz Core 7

Posted on Oct 5, 2016 6:28 PM

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Q: how to ShowAllFiles in terminal for "lost found" file

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  • by Eric Root,

    Eric Root Eric Root Oct 6, 2016 10:52 AM in response to hotwheels 22
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    Oct 6, 2016 10:52 AM in response to hotwheels 22

    Try these 2 Terminal commands. The 2nd one is to reside the files.

     

    Hidden files - show: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true ; killall Finder

     

    Hidden files - hide: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE -boolean false ; killall Finder

  • by hotwheels 22,

    hotwheels 22 hotwheels 22 Oct 6, 2016 1:16 PM in response to Eric Root
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    Oct 6, 2016 1:16 PM in response to Eric Root

    thanks a lot. hmmm.

     

    i tried the first one and got command not found.

     

    i tried:

     

    defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true


    > Return


    killall Finder


    and i see all the folders that are hidden showed as /greyed/ out. the "lost+found" folder shows two "iNode" files which don't show anything in them and if i double click on one i get a textedit document with major gibberish.


    from what i understood i was supposed to check the contents of these files before deleting them for any recently dated files.


    i wonder what i am missing on this issue...