Invisible Files

[kylebellamy]

I have a ZIP disk that recently went nuts but I was able to Image it to the desktop. I can copy it and watch the file names as they are copied but upon opening the folder, there are no files. The Image says there is all this space used (98Mb) but no files there either. Any ideas as to how to get at them?

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[jimoblak]

Do not trust the 98Mb file sizes. File sizes can be reported by the resource fork of the file, not necessarily the data fork (where all the gooey goodness resides). The important data fork may be screwy but the resource fork incorrectly says that there is a viable file there. Your disk image may be screwier than the original disk.

Your best bet is to run a utility like Norton Disk Doctor on the zip disk to repair the file structure.

You should only worry about restoring file visibility if you can't access the original zip disk anymore. See

http://www.versiontracker.com

and search for 'invisible' to find some apps to help.

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[kylebellamy]

The zip bit it completly and is now generating the 'no volumes that OS X can recognize" error. But I do have the image but that is giving me trouble now too... Norton says the disk is "Software Locked" and in M ore Info, I unlock the thing but it does not change the status of the disk. Any ideas? Norton finds faults with the image like custom icon off and such but I can't repair untill I have it unlocked. *sigh* A day in the life... LOL

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[kylebellamy]

Add to that it says it's a UDIF (read only) image... Hope that doesn't... er... procreate me.

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[jimoblak]

What happens if you start norton first, then insert the zip disk? The OS may not see the volume but norton may.

I was able to do this back on OS9 (and have since given up on zip disks for this reason). Can you boot into 9 directly and try the same?... start norton and then insert the zip disk?

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[kylebellamy]

Too late. The xip no longer responds to any thing, even in OS 9. I tried that one too just to check.

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[Zelandakh]

daft one but try it. Stick the zip disk in and let it try to mount. Force quit finder and rebuild desktop (command and option). It should rebuild the zip disk desktopDB. Usually works for me.

 

[kylebellamy]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

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