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SooTyLaD

SooTyLaD

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specifically, the terminal...

last night i installed full tilt poker a) cuz its one of the best and 2) cuz its the only one for mac :D

(you may have noticed from my sig which is the things i'm into that cards was one, well, thats cuz pokers mint :D)

anyway, during installation, it put a real shed load of files somewhere and me being the inquisitive kinda fella i am when it comes to computers, i wanted to know where they had all gone...

now, they are not assosiated with the app in the normal way since forklift doesnt pick them up in the uninstall app dialog box... so they are somewhere out of the ordinary...

i saw a load of the filenames as they were flicking past my eyes were 0.png, 1.png, etc... so i tried to search for these names, but nothing comes up in spotlight :confused:

so, i figure this is only a cut down search and missing out some of the deeper places, so then i read that the locate command in terminal will find anything so i went in there and typed "locate 1.png" but it didn't do anything...

so basically i'm asking, if there is a file you just can't find but know its there... how do you go about finding it?

EDIT: just to tell you what it said, the result was "No such file or directory" but it came to that conclusion almost instantly :confused: - i did this from the root prompt btw (went "cd .." a few times till it hit the wall)
 
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Have you told Spotlight to look in all files and folders?

There used to be a app for Tiger that changed the way Spotlight searched for hidden files.

In work at the moment so I can't get hold of the link :(
 
EVH said:
Have you told Spotlight to look in all files and folders?

There used to be a app for Tiger that changed the way Spotlight searched for hidden files.

In work at the moment so I can't get hold of the link :(
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well i did look in the spotlight section of system preferences but all the boxes were ticked...

this isn't a urgent issue or anything guys, i don't want to uninstall the app this us purely from an educational point of view on how to find tricky files within this new OS i am just getting my head around :)
 
[Robster];10590060 said:
Have you tried right (or control) clicking on the app itself, then down to 'show package contents'?
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no i hadn't tried that, and that is indeed where all the files were...

thats interesting, so when i installed the app... it compiled the .app there and then... i wonder why it did that as opposed to just copying over a ready to go version? is this a common way for developers to set up their installations?

its intriguing having a whole new os to get my noggin around :)
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
thats interesting, so when i installed the app... it compiled the .app there and then... i wonder why it did that as opposed to just copying over a ready to go version? is this a common way for developers to set up their installations?
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Most, if not all apps are this way, you just noticed the files being moved over because there was a lot of them, so it took longer...

Have a look...
 
That's also the way to modify the system apps.

For example, changing the Mail icon.
 
EVH said:
That's also the way to modify the system apps.

For example, changing the Mail icon.
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yeah i read that that needed to be done, but i just pasted in the new icon and it worked... the only problem i came across with that was that the icon i wanted to use (that british stamp one) didn't have an icon of its own so i dragged it onto my icns2icon program and it gave it an icon... then i just stuck it on the mail no problem :)

maybe it was a tiger thing not to be able to do it?
 
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