10.2.3 Finder Problem - New Request

jp_patches

I posted before about my Finder windows going away and none of the suggestions worked, so it looked I might have to reinstall OS X.



Then I had the idea of creating a new user to see what would happen and everything worked fine.



So now I would like to know the best way to copy all of my preferences and such over to a new user account. It seems like I would have the use the Terminal to do the copying because my Finder windows won't stay open. Do I need to worry about resource forks or anything like that? What commands should I use?



Or could I get access to my current user folder from the new one and then use Finder windows to do the copying?



I hope I've made sense with all this. Thanks for your help.



Jared

greg123

[quote]Originally posted by jp_patches:

<strong>I posted before about my Finder windows going away and none of the suggestions worked, so it looked I might have to reinstall OS X.



Then I had the idea of creating a new user to see what would happen and everything worked fine.



So now I would like to know the best way to copy all of my preferences and such over to a new user account. It seems like I would have the use the Terminal to do the copying because my Finder windows won't stay open. Do I need to worry about resource forks or anything like that? What commands should I use?



Or could I get access to my current user folder from the new one and then use Finder windows to do the copying?



I hope I've made sense with all this. Thanks for your help.



Jared</strong><hr></blockquote>





Here's a little on hidden fils, OS X, and the file structure.

<a href="http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/invisibles.html"; target="_blank">http://www.westwind.com/reference/OS-X/invisibles.html</a>;



type: ls -a

To See all of the hidden files in your current directory.



Look for a .finder or some other configuration file...



If there was a data fork, it would be called:

._(name goes here)



Here's a list of Unix commands:

<a href="http://www.mesagroup.com/html/unix_commands.html"; target="_blank">http://www.mesagroup.com/html/unix_commands.html</a>;





I'd generally reccomend something along the lines of:



cp &lt;filename&gt; &lt;destination_directory&gt;/&lt;filename&gt;



To copy the file into the other directory. But you'll need to make sure you have permissions to copy such, and make sure the resulting copy also leaves proper permissions for the other user.

greg123

Um, actually... Finder's Private Data Fork is a little different?



<a href="http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cacheeveloper.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/SystemOverview/FileSystem/Resource_Forks.html+Mac+OS+X+HFS+Data+Fork&hl=en&i e=UTF-8" target="_blank">here</a>





I had to edit this like 5, no 6 times and turn off smiles to get this link to work... hehe



[ 12-25-2002: Message edited by: greg123 ]</p>

formerlurker

I'd just do an Archive & Install, and then you can deal with the few files that will need to be moved in the Finder.