Excuse this being a bit long-winded but I thought it best to explain how I arrived at this situation in case any of it is relevant.
My daughter's PC (Win XP) started playing up so I ran Seagate's SeaTools which showed the HDD is dying.
Pulled the HDD out and connected it to my MBP using an ATA->USB adaptor. Was able to browse Documents And Settings OK so wanted to pull all the data onto my external HDD.
The external HDD is HFS+ formatted as 2 volumes, mounted as TimeMachine and Vaults, the latter being used primarily for my Aperture vaults and other random backups.
In Finder, navigated to Vaults (under Devices) and created a new folder - MosPC - then browsed to the PC HDD, selected folders to copy, back to Vaults - but the folder MosPC was not there. Hmmm, tried to create it again but it said it already existed.
Opened Terminal, `cd /Volumes/Vaults', and there it is, MosPC???? Did `ls -la' and noticed the perms had a '@' at the end - drwxr-xr-x@ - which I'm not familiar with. `man ls' revealed that it means the folder has extended attributes and the `-@' option will display them.
`ls -la@' lists the folder with com.apple.FinderInfo on the line below.
I managed to copy all the files I wanted in terminal using`cp -pr' so I've got the data backed up, but I can't see it in Finder.
Searching Mac Help for Extended Attributes yeilded nothing relevant so, what are they (I've a shrewed idea they are similar to BSD flags controlled by chflags(1), adding things like a hidden flag and the flag that makes things like iPhoto and Aperture libraries appear as a file). So, how do I change EAs so I can browse MosPC in Finder?
Just in case it's relevant, the PC HDD is formatted NTFS.
Here's the Extended Attributes for the folder in question...
Any idea what that means?
My daughter's PC (Win XP) started playing up so I ran Seagate's SeaTools which showed the HDD is dying.
Pulled the HDD out and connected it to my MBP using an ATA->USB adaptor. Was able to browse Documents And Settings OK so wanted to pull all the data onto my external HDD.
The external HDD is HFS+ formatted as 2 volumes, mounted as TimeMachine and Vaults, the latter being used primarily for my Aperture vaults and other random backups.
In Finder, navigated to Vaults (under Devices) and created a new folder - MosPC - then browsed to the PC HDD, selected folders to copy, back to Vaults - but the folder MosPC was not there. Hmmm, tried to create it again but it said it already existed.
Opened Terminal, `cd /Volumes/Vaults', and there it is, MosPC???? Did `ls -la' and noticed the perms had a '@' at the end - drwxr-xr-x@ - which I'm not familiar with. `man ls' revealed that it means the folder has extended attributes and the `-@' option will display them.
`ls -la@' lists the folder with com.apple.FinderInfo on the line below.
I managed to copy all the files I wanted in terminal using`cp -pr' so I've got the data backed up, but I can't see it in Finder.
Searching Mac Help for Extended Attributes yeilded nothing relevant so, what are they (I've a shrewed idea they are similar to BSD flags controlled by chflags(1), adding things like a hidden flag and the flag that makes things like iPhoto and Aperture libraries appear as a file). So, how do I change EAs so I can browse MosPC in Finder?
Just in case it's relevant, the PC HDD is formatted NTFS.
Here's the Extended Attributes for the folder in question...
Code:
braeburn:Vaults parish$ xattr -l MosPC/
com.apple.FinderInfo:
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |........@.......|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020Any idea what that means?