Bizzare Problem: A Folder that exists yet at the same does not

[ieani]

I tried to change my default save folder for torrents on azureus from my external to my laptop HDD for a brief time so I could download while on the road. But when I switched it back to my external, for whatever reason, it created a folder with the same name as my external and added a 1 to the name of my external. But I cannot locate this ghost folder. When I choose to show the torrents in finder in only shows the torrent file saved in the directory I use on my laptop hdd(which it shouldnt be doing either). I cannot with spotlight or manually locate this folder or the files I downloaded that are saved in it. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[ieani]

OK heres a pic. Anyone know how I can access it?

 

[ieani]

Well since apparently everyone else was/is confused as I. I just deleted every azureus file spotlight could find and then reinstalled it. Its working now but Im still curious as to the location of that folder.

 

[ieani]

I found it! I used Omni Disk Sweeper and discovered it was hiding in the BaseSystem package which explains why it existed without spotlight being able to find it. I deleted it and gained 3GBs of space back.

 

[mkrishnan]

I deleted it and gained 3GBs of space back.

😱

Well, glad you figured it out!

For future reference, Terminal is probably your best bet for finding something like that. You can do something like this:

find / | grep -i "insert the full name of the folder you want in between quotes"

🙂

 

[toddburch]

Uh... nice wallpaper. 🙂