What is the /.vol/ directory?

[MacBH928]

What is this?

 

[maflynn]

You can see what it is here:
http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/invisibles.html

This pseudo-directory is used to access files by their ID number (aka inode number) rather than by name. For example, /.vol/234881034/105486 is file #105486 on volume #234881034.

 

[MacBH928]

You can see what it is here:
http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/invisibles.html

Thank you

 

[chown33]

Maybe you have some things in your /.vol directory that shouldn't normally be there. As I understand it, there shouldn't be anything actually present under that directory.

Paste the following command line into a Terminal.app window.

ls -la /.vol

If nothing happens, press the RETURN key on your keyboard.

Then drag-select the entire command output, press ⌘C to copy it to the clipboard, then paste it into a post on this thread, using CODE tags around the pasted output.