Timeline for Phantom file anomaly
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| Dec 2, 2022 at 17:14 | comment | added | WGroleau | Long ago, in an attempt to fix the Dock consistently showing the old version of an updated app instead of the latest, I found that the items in the Dock were merely paths in its .plist. I wrote a script to replace that .plist with one having the correct path. But it didn't work, because Dock is also an app that loads its .plist at login and periodically rewrites it. But it did not list the contents of Downloads, only the path to it. Apparently, that design changed, because my phantom file was not in the Downloads directory and not in Dock after reboot. But what created it, I don't know. | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 17:02 | comment | added | WGroleau |
@nohillside: Although I didn't post it, ls (like file and rm) said there is no such file.
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| Dec 2, 2022 at 13:45 | answer | added | benwiggy | timeline score: -1 | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 11:16 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Wild speculation I cannot test… Items in the Dock are aliases, therefore the file list in the Downloads alias are also aliases, or stored in some plist or xml somewhere. This has somehow become unsynchronised from the actual contents. Fix: remove that plist or the entire Downloads alias & make it re-create. [Trouble is, I don't know how to do this. I don't have a Downloads folder in my Dock & I can't even figure out how to put it back :\ | |
| Dec 2, 2022 at 10:42 | comment | added | nohillside♦ |
ls -dlOe@ on the file?
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| Dec 2, 2022 at 10:05 | history | asked | WGroleau | CC BY-SA 4.0 |