OS X :: USR File (Unhidden) In Macintosh HD?
Dec 30, 2009
I know that some base unix files are hidden inside Macintosh HD, and I know that sometimes they get unhidden, well, this happened to me with the private folder, and I deleted it, then restored from a backup and found a command to get rid of it. But now another hidden file has become unhidden, the usr file, now I don't know what it is so I'm not gonna mess with it, but can some one please tell me the command to hide it, or give me a link to an article?
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Jul 13, 2010
How can I get it back?
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Jul 3, 2012
After reinstall of OS X 10.7.4, I restored an older copy from Time Machine backup. I want to completely replace the current "Macintosh HD" folder with the folder that TM put inside it. I created a separate user account, that did not exist before to do it. Do I need to create a root account? Is there an easy way to copy /Macintosh HD/Macintosh HD/to/Macintosh HD/?
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iMac (24-inch), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 22, 2012
The default 'Macintosh HD' hard drive on my Intel Mac Pro (OSX10.6.8) is almost full and I'd like to clone it to a new larger capacity drive. To keep things simple I will remove the existing drive and keep it safe as a backup. I understand that I can clone the drive to a new one and make the new one bootable using something like Carbon Copy Cloner or the Apple Disk Utility but I just have a couple of quick questions.
Firstly I believe I must partition the new disk in Disk Utility using a GUID Partition table. What about the naming of the disk? Again to keep things simple I would like the new disk to be named 'Macintosh HD'.
Regardless of what I name the new disk when it is initially formatted/partitioned will the cloning process also copy the 'Macintosh HD' name to it? Can you have two disks with the same name connected to the Mac Pro at the same time during the clone process?
Secondly, will the cloning process in the Apple Disk Utility automatically make the new drive bootable or are there further steps required after the clone is made?
Finally, if I use the Apple Disk Utility to create the clone should I do this from the original Snow Leopard DVD that came with the Mac Pro or should I use the latest version that is on the installed Mac OSX?
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Oct 18, 2006
Any suggestions for backing up a macintosh system? I have a Imac G5 running OS X 10.4.8. I'm not sure the size the size of the drive; it's one of the Apple standard ones, I'm guessing 400 MB.
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Aug 29, 2010
The name of the Macintosh HD has somehow been changed to a tiny little circle with an "x" it. I think this may have been done accidentally, but I also would like to eliminate the possibility that it indicates some sort of problem. Of course I know how to highlight the icon and select the naming area and just rename it, bit does anyone know if the little circle with the "x" means anything other than someone just accidentally renamed the Macintosh HD somehow?
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Aug 31, 2010
My MacBook has had song big problems, and all I can get it to do is boot up with the Mac OS X install disk, or the DVD I put ubuntu on earlier. Otherwise I get the grey screen with a folder and question mark flashing on the screen. I am unable to reinstall OS X because of the error, so we (I and a guy on this site) have worked out I need to backup my files using ubuntu, format the computer and then reinstall the OS.
I don't have an external hard drive, but I found ubuntu allows me to use my iPhone in the same way. I have backed up most of my files now, but I cannot access the main folders;
Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Music or Pictures and I get the following message:
"The Folder contents could not be displayed.
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "_____".
Another problem is to put these files back onto my newly formatted MacBook, I will have to access my iPhone using ubuntu, and I can't put items onto the Macintosh HD because I get the message; "Error while copying to '(name)'.
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Aug 26, 2009
I did this in the past, but it has reappeared since I just updated my Mac. How do you hide this on the Desktop?
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Nov 10, 2009
I am buying a Western Digital (probably) External Hard Disk Drive today. It will either be 250GB or 320GB, depends on how much money I'm going to have with me. I wanted to know what the best way to format it is so it can be 'read and write' on both Macintosh and Windows in the same time. But if that's not possible, then at least Windows only (Win7) since that's what I use for games and now games are in huge sizes, just got Call of Duty 6 and it's like 11GBs.
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Dec 10, 2009
I was trying to change the icon of my "Macintosh HD" on my iMac. I'd done this earlier on my Macbook Pro, and I had the same problem as I'm having now. I eventually got it done on the 'Book Pro but I don't remember what I had to do. When clicking "Get Info", in the left-top corner the icon isn't there. It's blank and says "png". Why does the icon not show up? I can't copy-paste it, and it's stuck that way.
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Dec 23, 2009
I use to have the macintosh hd icon on the desktop but today when i booted up it wasnt there. I read on another blog that u have to check something on order to display it but im unable to find where to find this
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Jun 26, 2012
What is this 38GB backup on my Macintosh HD? I use an external HD for my time machine backup.Just confused with the 38 GB backup on my Macintosh HD.
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13-inch Pro 2.53GHz, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jul 4, 2012
I just bought a new 15" Macbook Pro last two days, and today I used Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 7.
I devided 250GB of my HD for Mac, and the rest for Boot Camp Windows. During Windows 7 installation I maked format the boot camp partition and resized it to 50GB so I have unallocated 450GB free space. After Windows 7 installation completed, I used Disk Management on Windows to create another new partition with FAT formatted. Then I restarted my Macbook Pro to use Boot Camp Assistant to download Boot Camp Driver due to I forgot to download at the firs time.
But I didn't see my Macintosh HD and even Recovery HD on the start up disk selection menu (Hold Option during start-up)I try all things from Apple Support page even try to recover via Internet (Command + R during start-up) and make a Lion Recovery Disk (USD Flash Drive)I have another Macbook run Lion too so I try everything that should work but it's still not work.Finally, I log on to windows and format all Macintosh Partition for a hope to clean install the new Mac OS X Lion, but it still not work.he last thing I haved tried was to exchange my new Macbook Pro hard disk with my unibody 2008 macbook and try to install new Mac OS X Lion. After completed install all new Mac OS X Lion 10.7 (.0), I put the macbook pro hard disk back to the new Macbook Pro and try to boot it but it shows up the Stop Sign.
Info:MacBookPro, Windows7
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Sep 16, 2010
while clearing up some HD space I noticed a strange folder located on the Macintosh HD. It appears to be named with a single Japanese or Chinese character (those being my best guesses, could definitely be something completely different) and reappears upon restart if deleted. I've attached a picture of what it looks like.
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Nov 15, 2008
Can this be done? Instructions anywhere?
What size USB flash drive needed?
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Mar 2, 2009
I recently acquired a Macintosh 128k, and when I turn on the machine, I get a symbol of a floppy disc with a question point blinking inside. I believe I need a boot disc to get the unit running. If anybody could please offer me a boot disc, either to purchase or to get for free.
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Jul 25, 2009
i am about to restore and repair my HDi am going to put in the imac instal disk then go to disk utility from the boot screen and then hit repair and erase or whateveri am doing this because i think my hard drive is screwed up and i cant back up and external WD drive (heres the thread about it [URL] /showthread.php?t=735505)i did everything they told me in the thread and it didn't work so i am about to do this. i was just wondering if anyone knew if i was doing this right and if there is anything i should do before this, also if there is any point to what im about to do.
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Jun 27, 2010
Recently posted a thread but was thinking could anyone really really simply tell me in numbered steps how to get surround sound for my iMac, and what i'd need to buy. I have a home cinema system with all the speakers which go through RCA connectors (phono) into the system.
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Jul 1, 2010
I've just noticed this happening tonight. I did perform todays Mac Update but I don't know if they are related. Whenever I try to open "Macintosh HD" (my boot drive) the Finder closes. Does anyone know what the solution could be? I was able to run a "verify disk" and it said there were errors so I did a reboot to my Snow Leopard start up disk and was able to repair the errors.
I've googled everything I can think of and can't seem to find anyone else with this issue. I'd rather not have to reimage the machine. Upon further investigation I've noticed that the problem seemed to have started on June 20th. I can access the back-up folders of my Time Machine for "Macintosh HD" for all dates prior but starting on the 20th if I try to access the Macintosh HD backup folder, Finder shuts down just as it does with the current Macintosh HD.
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Mar 13, 2012
I'm trying to install Facetime. I'm using Lion, version 10.7.3.......When I try to buy it, an error appears saying that "Facetime can't be installed on "Macintosh HD" because the version of Mac OS X is too new"
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 22, 2012
It seems that every now and then when I log in, my hard drive icon has changed to something strange.
So far I've had a house, and a filing cabient.
This isn't a serious problem, I'm just wondering whether it's just my computer, or a bug in Lion.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 27 INCH - 1TB HDD - 8GB RAM
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Apr 8, 2012
FaceTime cant be installed on “Macintosh HD” because the version of Mac OS X is too new. I removed all traces of FaceTime and still not able to install from App store. New to macbook pro with Lion.
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Apr 8, 2012
I tried to install FaceTime on my MacBook Pro, but got the message that my operating system was too new! (Can you believe there's a typo in the pop-up alert? How could Apple spell Macintosh wrong?) In another thread someone was able to solve this problem by doing a Spotlight search for FaceTime. Well, I know I don't have it because I deleted it. I can't get it back and I can't download it.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 17"
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Jun 3, 2012
I have installed windows 7 on bootcamp, and currently running max os Lion currently i am having issues accessing the mac os itself. When i turned it on and off or restart it, it always gives me a bootup screen that said Mac OS Utilities, just like the picture in this link : [URL]I tried restarting it several times, it does not boot up my Macbook, to my desktop. I trist the windows it works just fine. Then i tried recovering it 3x, which each takes 6-7 hours to do it. and it still always keep booting up the same thing over and over again.
i tried re-installing the OS, but its always giving me message, "this mac os lion is damaged, cannot be installed in this computer" something like that. i've been trying to fix it a day or so, it still wont boot up my Desktop.. I tried restaring it and choosing my disk "Macintosh HD" but it still gives me a recover screen. I also tried pressing the option key then choose my disk, and it still doing the same thing.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 9, 2012
I have been, having issue with creating a Folder in my "Mac 10.7.3" in Macintosh drive, this is happen sice Thursday this week, the problem I have is that every time I want to create a New Floder, Transfer folder or Delete any file in Macintosh, is keep asking me to inter a password, ( Finder Wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this) but I never had this issue three days ago, I was in the phone with Apple technical support for about 40 minute today.dose any one know how to anable this password settings ?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 2010-silver
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Jun 12, 2012
I have a 15" MacBook Pro on my hands with some sort of HDD issue. The machine suddenly stopped booting and so my first thought was that the HDD has failed or that the filesystem had become corrupt. My files were all backed up, so I went ahead with a reformat and reinstallation of Lion. At firat Verify Disk, run from the Lion boot disk, reported numerous errors that Repair Disk couldn't fix. Fair enough. I swapped the old drive out for a new one that I knew to be good. (And, in the meantime, reformatted the old drive while attached externally to another machine without issues -- so maybe there's nothing wrong with this drive after all?) But no dice this way either: Lion reinstallation fails with an uninormative error message ("An error occurred while preparing the installation."). And if I attempt to alter the partition structure of either drive (either the known-good drive, or the original drive) or to erase the drive, I am told that the partition could not be unmounted. I find this odd, since I have booted off the Lion install DVD, not the HDD in question.
So, I'm left to conclude that something is faulty. I think I can rule out the drive itself -- I have two drives that exhibit the same symptoms, both of which behave fine in another MacBook Pro. I also think I can rule out the SATA controller/logic board since there are no evident IO problems with the DVD drive and, other than the HDD issues, I can run the Lion installer (as well as an Uuntu LiveCD) without difficulty. So what's left? Could it be the SATA cable?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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Jun 26, 2012
I've replaced the hard drive with a ssd hd and intalled Lion on it. Now I've 128GB hd called "ssd" and 500GB hd called "Macintosh HD" (the old one). I've would like to erase Macintosh HD but is not possible. If I try I've an alert with "Is not possible to unmount the drive".
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Dec 9, 2014
I've used PCs for awhile, but lately I was toying with some of my computers info and found under the "About This Mac" my computer has 130 GB worth of "Backups". I have 18GB audio which I though was a lot, and 48 GB of movies, 22GB of photos, 27 GB of apps, and 74 GB of other. Overall I have 177 GB free out of 500 GB total.
I want to clear my hard drive, what's a good way to do this? And why do I have so many "Backups"? What do these do? I use Time Machine--I don't know if that's relevant.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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Dec 5, 2014
I have a Retina 13-inch Late 2013, Processor 2.4 GHz Intel Core i5 with a memory of $GB MHz DDR3 and my start up disk is the Macintosh HD, how to repair my MAC, it has been corrupted due to not enough storage available, how am I going to set the repair on this issue? Can I purchase an additional storage to solve this issue or should I just get another external drive instead?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.6.5)
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Nov 28, 2010
Title says it all really! The test remains, however, and you can still go into each folder, as it is still selectable.
This is a new 17 inch Macbook, Time Machine restored from a 15 inch one (including system files).
where I can recover the icon files (I think I can copy and paste the icon files into the preview section on the get info window)? Or if there is another solution?
Three other things, if you happen to know the answer as well:
1. I've just bought this screwdriver: [URL]
Will this be sufficient to replace the hard drive in my uMBP (considering it is all Philips screws)
2. Do you know if the Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Hard Drive can be restored using a clone, without slowdown consequences?
3. Do you know of any desktop images which, when selected to cycle for e.g. every 5 seconds, will create a cool effect? I'm thinking night and day scenes, identical images with different hues etc.
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