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Don't delete that folder!
Authored by: carsten on Mar 04, '03 11:26:20PM

Note that one should normally not delete the folder "HFS+ Private Data", it contains directory information about multi-linked/hard-linked files (and possibly other directory structures too) in OS X. Even a fresh install of OS X has a few hard-linked files in /bin for example. (I wish Apple would provide at least SOME documentation for such low-level aspects of the system!)

As far as I know this folder is not accessible unless you reboot into OS 9 proper, and even then it's an invisible folder in the top-level of the hard drive.

So as a note of caution to anyone else who may have seen this odd folder name and is considering deleting it... if you are using OS X do not move or delete this folder.



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