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Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
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Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)


  • Subject: Re: Using Snow Leopard for development (was: NSString Retain Count of 2147483647)
  • From: Greg Guerin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:07:56 -0700

Bill Bumgarner wrote:

One short 'sudo mv /Volumes/Data/Data/* /Volumes/Data/' command later and my machine was fully restored to working order.

Be careful with that globbing pattern, Eugene: "/*" won't match names that begin with ".". There may not have been any such items on your Data volume, but you might want to check it with 'ls -la /Volumes/ Data/Data'.


I mention this because some apps like to put hidden dirs in one's home folder with names that start with ".". For example, I see ".distcc" and ".subversion" in mine, among others. Even the Apple- recommended way to preset env-vars uses ".MacOSX" in one's home dir (which I have). And I mention this in the context of home folders because one way to use a data partition is to create a symlink in / Users that points to the data partition as one's home folder.

Also, I see other dot-prefixed files and dirs at the root of my data partition. Many of these will probably be rebuilt as needed (Spotlight, temp, trash), but I see a ".VolumeIcon.icns" that probably holds the custom icon I've assigned to this volume.

  -- GG

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