AW: AW: where do I find the temp folder on a Mac?

[Thomas McGrath III]

Mark,

I believe it if you say the hidden state is not connected to the  
permissions, (I thought it was) but then why when I run Disk tools and  
Fix Permissions does it then also reset the hidden state of a folder  
that I 'changed'?

Thanks

Tom

On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On the Mac, the temp folder in the library folder is not hidden. The  
> folder "/tmp" is. The visibility of a folder is not connected to  
> permissions on Mac/Unix/Linux. I think it is the same on Windows.  
> Because the Windows temp folder is a system folder, it is supposed  
> to be hidden on Windows regardless of permissions. Of course, it is  
> a Very Bad Idea to change the permissions of your temp folder.
>
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>
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> On 18 nov 2008, at 16:45, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
>> Hi Tiemo,
>>
>> No you will have permissions to write to it always, but it remains  
>> hidden as it should be. That's all. And you checking what you are  
>> doing IS a good reason to do this, I think.
>>
>> It is just that when ever I have 'issues' like slow downs of my  
>> system I have to run a check and fix my permissions and the Disk  
>> Utility app usually resets all of the permissions that I have  
>> changed. I am pretty sure the hidden state of a folder is tied into  
>> the permissions of a folder. Someone can correct me if this is not  
>> the case.
>>
>> You are fine in what you are doing here. I was just letting you  
>> know that it might not be a good idea in a distributed stack or app  
>> to go around a users system and changing the hidden state of folders.
>>
>> Tom
>> On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
>>
>
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