[Macpartners] Hiding Mac OS X volumes selectively...?

[Albert Willis]

On May 31, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Kerem B Limon wrote:

> That's nice (and exactly what I'm looking for), but the hint's from  
> 2001 and the
> GetFileInfo command doesn't work on folders (and hence volumes) on  
> two Macs we
> have here. The GetFileInfo applied to a folder or volume, say,  
> produces:
>
> ./GetFileInfo could not be used to display info about folder
>
> and the man page for this seems to indicate it is designed for  
> files only.
>
> Good thing is, SetFile seems to nonetheless let you clear the  
> visibility bit and
> that works upon launching the Finder. However, there is no way to  
> see the
> attributes.
>
> Perhaps, I should file this as a bug report to Apple?
>
> -Kerem

GetFileInfo doesn't work when I'm in the /Developer/Tools directly.  
However, I can view attributes by creating a symbolic link as  
described in the hint: sudo ln -s /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo /usr/ 
bin/getinfo and using getinfo. Go figure.

   -- Al

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Albert Willis
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
awillis at mit.edu

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