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Navigate save dialog boxes by typing filesystem paths
Authored by: mervTormel on Apr 11, '03 06:11:42PM

entering /Volumes does pop up an ominous dialog, but entering /volumes (lowercase Vee) takes you there :D



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Navigate save dialog boxes by typing filesystem paths
Authored by: rlinsurf on Apr 11, '03 07:01:20PM

Okay...as a UNIX Newbie...I've tried /Volumes and /volumes. My other hard drive is called Macintosh HD from the old days -- there's a space. So I've also tried: /Macintosh HD, /"Macintosh HD", and /Macintosh_HD (although I don't see how adding an _ to a name that doesn't already have it would work?

Anyway, for the /volume commands, I get Permission denied. Even though I have sudo -s'd in:

[64:~] root# /volumes
/volumes: Permission denied.

And I really don't want to have to log out and then login again as root if possible.

For the name commands I get:

[64:~] root# /"Macintosh HD"
/Macintosh HD: Command not found.

So far, I have not been able to access any other drives.

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Jeffrey



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Terminal basics
Authored by: englabenny on Apr 11, '03 07:45:27PM
[This hint does not apply to terminal operations] when you type [64:~] root# /volumes, you are actually trying to execute the path, in this case a nonexsitant such. Try % cd /Volumes instead. As for typing spaces, you can escape them by putting a \ before them, or enclose the whole of the path in qoutation marks. Use: % cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD or % cd "/Volumes/Macintosh HD"

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