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Anyone know what these crazy folders are??

They look like all the Unix commands to me. The commands typed in the terminal.

I had no idea OS X was Korn Shell, I thought it was Bourne Again Shell.
 
roadbloc said:
They look like all the Unix commands to me. The commands typed in the terminal.

I had no idea OS X was Korn Shell, I thought it was Bourne Again Shell.
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Thanks but any idea why those are showing up? Those are supposed to be hidden. I just ordered a 500gb, so I'll just start with a clean slate when that arrives.
 
MikesGravity said:
Thanks but any idea why those are showing up? Those are supposed to be hidden. I just ordered a 500gb, so I'll just start with a clean slate when that arrives.
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As long as there are no significant problems with your install, apart from the fact you have some additional folders, I shouldn't worry about it.

I mean, take a look at the root of my hard drive:
2d7sile.jpg
 
Those look like MSI temp files from Windows installer. Strange ...

Do you have bootcamp installed or something ? Or maybe a Symantec Anti Virus ??

Funny :)
 
MikesGravity said:
That's so strange!
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Those files are meant to be there, however they are usually hidden by default in OS X. Maybe an error during the reinstall caused them to be visible? In any case, it's best not to mess with system files. C/P this command into terminal to re-hide them:

Code: 
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE


killall Finder
 
mcprobie said:
Those look like MSI temp files from Windows installer. Strange ...

Do you have bootcamp installed or something ? Or maybe a Symantec Anti Virus ??
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There is a bit of an oddity with Windows updates. For certain ones it will write to the first writeable partition, even if that is not the one that Windows is on. So with the new ability to write to HFS it writes to the MacOS one, and then can't use the files on boot. There is a Apple tool to unmount the drive before you do the upgrade.
 
I had boot camp running windows 7 but then removed the partition and erased it and erased the disk. Then re-installed and had the folders like that. Thanks Techhie!
 
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