Overwritten(???) hidden folder Terminal. Help.

[DCWolfie]

I'll try keep it simple:

I was hiding my second movie folder in Terminal from Plex using the command:

mv /Users/tsm121/movies/movies2 /Users/tsm121/movies/.movies2

I som how managed to make a new folder and used the same command again. Now when i try to unhide it with this command:

mv /Users/tsm121/movies/.movies2 /Users/tsm121/movies/movies2

Only the empty folder appears. I tried to delete the empty folder and rund the command again, but then I only get

No such file or directory

.

Also tried to show hidden files in finder ( with this command:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

), but the folder don't show up.

I'll gladly give a cookie to the one who helps me!

 

[Bruno09]

Try this :

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1

Hit Enter

killall Finder

Hit Enter.

 

[DCWolfie]

Nop . I can see another hidden folder I have, but not the specific "movie" folder.

I think it's strange since it was around 50gb big, and that space is still used.

(Thanks for helping btw.)

 

[w0lf]

My guess is you probably made a typo or something in the original mv and ended up putting the folder somewhere you didn't mean to.

Next time try this if you want to hide something from plex.

Excluding files with .plexignore

You can tell the scanner to ignore files or patterns by adding a .plexignore file to any folder in your section. If you add the .plexignore file to the root (top-level) folder in the section, the ignore rules will apply to all sub-folders.

Note that many text editors (e.g. Notepad, Text Edit) will save files with a .txt extension by default. Make sure your file is called ".plexignore" (exactly, with no extension) or this won't work!

Add one pattern per line for things you'd like to ignore. The file is interpreted as follows:

• Blank lines are ignored.
• Lines starting with # are comments.
• Patterns without '/'s (e.g. *.mkv) match filenames in the same directory as the .plexignore file, or anywhere in the tree if .plexignore is a root of the section.
• Patterns with '/'s (e.g. somedir/*) match directory and file patterns relative to the directory containing the .plexignore file.

Note: always use forward slashes ('/') as path delimiters, even on Windows.

An example .plexignore file:

   # Ignore all files with "trailer" in the name.
   *trailer*
   
   # Ignore everything in the "thumbnails" directory.
   thumbnails/*
   
   # Ignore files with the extension ".cr2"
   *.cr2
   
   # Ignore directories called "Modified"
   Modified/*

 

[DCWolfie]

I've checked checked thoroughly through my last Terminal entries, and I have not misspelled anything . The folder should be in /Users/tsm121/movies/ , but I don't know exactly where.


(Oh. Thanks. That's a bit more useful than Terminal for an unexperienced Terminaluser. )

 

[DCWolfie]

GOT IT!


Terminal had put .movies into the second .movies folder which was in the trash.


Thanks for the help guys!