Questions tagged [folders]
"Folder" is the colloquial term for "directory" or "subdirectory", an abstraction of the file system hierarchical divisions used to organize files, documents, applicatons and pieces of programming code.
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Deleting files from iCloud Drive also deletes them from local
I am becoming insane. I activated the iCloud Drive for the Documents folder to be sure not to lose any, but since I got more space now on the hard disk and iCloud space is running low I want the ...
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How To Limit An FTP User To A Specific Directory? [closed]
The most common reason to restrict FTP users is to prevent them from making changes to certain parts of a website. Restricting access can also be useful if you want to make it possible for a user to ...
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Unable to copy or compress folders in actively synching iCloud Documents and Desktop folders
I am using a 2022 Mac Studio M1 Ultra running Ventura 13.2.1, however I have been experiencing this issue since Monterey.
I can't compress or copy/duplicate folders when the parent folder is synching ...
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iPhone X iOS 16.3.1 how to save folders starting with “.” (Dot)
I am connected to a shared folder on Windows 10 x64 via SMB by using iPhone’s Files app. I saved a zip file containing folders starting with a dot “.” When i extracted these folders within the Files ...
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Specify timemachine backup folder blacklist for specific backup disks [duplicate]
I connected two backup disks in my time machine config, one is at the office and the other one is at home. On the office drive I don't want to backup all mac, so I excluded some folder like downloads ...
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How can I reverse lookup an alias, ie. find what links to a file or folder?
Suppose I have a folder /my/dir/ and an alias in ~/Documents (called thisdir) pointing to /my/dir/. How can I find the alias (ie. find all aliases) that points to /my/dir/?
This question is unlike a ...
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Working with Shared Folders & Files on Mac
I use shared folders on different computers for work. All mac machines. I pull folders from the shared folders. I do the work that needs to be done. Then I drop the work back into the shared folder so ...
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Where to save files that won't be Desktop or Documents?
I was told by Apple Support to hold my computer's cloud drive on pause while I organize my files. They saw how I had many files on Desktop and Documents. I have now somewhat organized them into ...
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How to open a specific directory or folder when click on the "Finder" folder icon on OSX Ventura
When I click on the "Finder" icon on my bottom bar, it always open the "Recent" folder like this:
Now, I want to open a specific folder for example "Documents" when ...
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Mac Automator - When given a folder containing many files with the same name format, organise the folder with new sub-folders [duplicate]
So I have a folder which contains many .mp3 and .cdg files (setting up a Karaoke system 😅)
All of the files follow the same naming system:
Artist - Song name [Karaoke]
Rather than having all of the ...
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mail.app moving subfolders under Inbox
is there the possibility to have all the folders created for a given mail account organised in a tree-like view? Something like this image from this previous question:
I am not sure if this was a ...
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Date modified is not updating when I change the file name, when I add a folder in another folder, and when I add items in a folder
I own a MacOs Monterey version 12,4.
I want to be able to back up from an external disk to another, so the easiest way for me to do it, is to see the modified folders and just update these ones to the ...
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How can I create the directory equivalent of /dev/null?
I have some directories that fill up with useless items such as ~/Library/Application Scripts or ~/Library/Caches or others. There are /dev/null type inodes that discard anything written to them ...
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How to symlink Mac OS' own folders (Monterey)?
I am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6):
In the past I would symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology ...
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Is there a commandline switch for "ls" that reveals "firmlinks"
With macOS Sierra APFS came with a new concept of "firmlinks", often described as being "between hardlinks and symlinks".
Several folders are now at System/Volumes/Data but are ...
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Can I group Spotlight results by folder?
I did a search in Spotlight and got 500 results:
I want to group them by folder. Is that possible? I tried right-clicking the column headers but there's no Folder option:
I tried pressing Cmd-J to ...
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How do I search a folder excluding one specific subfolder?
I have this folder structure:
Photos
|- Bangalore
|- Sydney
|- Videos
How do I search in Photos excluding the Videos subfolder?
I don't want to permanently exclude the subfolder from Spotlight, just ...
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Automator folder action for moving files to a newly created folder with date
What I want to accomplish:
I have a folder called Reports, I want to move files to said folder (PDF and XLSX) and moving those files there should trigger an Automator folder action to:
Create a new ...
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Identify "UNIX-specific directories" in macOS
According to Apple's File System Programming Guide, macOS includes so-called UNIX-specific directories:
The directories in this category are inherited from traditional UNIX installations. They are an ...
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How to fix incorrect iCloud folder status icons
On one of my MacBooks, a few iCloud folders have persistent iCloud status icons, even though there is no iCloud pie chart upload/download activity in the side bar. For example, they will show as being ...
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Made folder Date Created value match oldest file – or Date Added [duplicate]
iCloud Drive just obliterated all my folder dates. Handy. I’ve spotted shell scripts on this site that do all kinds of clever things with dates, but not one that does either of the following:
Change ...
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Is it possible to customize a shortcut in Spotlight search which would lead me to a specific folder?
It'd be great if I could enter some name in Spotlight, for instance myproject, and then open a folder with the Finder.
Is that possible?
I have added too many folders to "Favorites". So, a ...
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Cannot view or manipulate one of MacOS's "special" folders in Terminal
I've somehow managed to cut myself (and the superuser???) off from my ~/Downloads directory in the Terminal.
I did not purposefully enter any Unix commands to change permissions or access.
I did ...
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How can I find what folder an app is in on my iPhone using iOS 15.6.1? [duplicate]
How can I find what folder an app is in on my iPhone using iOS 15.6.1? I am trying to find the app so that I can move it to the appropriate folder. The tips I have found in the forums are all outdated ...
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Mac not booting after moving SSD and HDD to another Mac
I had a mid-2011, 2.5GHz, AMD graphics, Mac Mini with an SSD and HDD using OWC’s dual drive setup. The SSD drive had the OS (10.11 I think) and the HDD had my home folder and an old version of OS X (...
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Unable to Drag & Drop to Folders in Sidebar
On late 2019 rMBP running Catalina 10.15.7
I tried to drag and drop some screenshots and folders into a folder on the sidebar. And the files & folders would just go back into where I pulled them ...
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How do I move Facetime and other apps to different directories?
My Applications folder is getting very cluttered, and I would like to organize. Step one: move all the internet tools to an "Internet & Network" folder. Chrome, check. Firefox, check. ...
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Batch rename folders/directories using metadata in terminal (or Automator)
I have a bunch (over a thousand) folders that I would like to rename according to their metadata. Example of folder names:
13.01.2021
19.08.2020
25.12.2020
30 July 2019
30 May 2021
2022.03.03
At the ...
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Export ipod playlists (including music files) with each playlist in its own directory with its name being the directory name on pc
I have an ipod nano 4th gen which I normally connect to my car radio using an aux cable. Connecting an usb pen drive with the music on it would be much easier to use in the car as I can navigatie the ...
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How do I add/permit "staff" to this folder? "chgrp -R staff dir_name"
For some reason, there isn't "staff" user group on a folder that I just created.
I would like the to add/permit "staff" user group to read and write in this folder.
How do I add/...
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Setting Individual Folders To a Different Sorting Method? & Icon Size
How do you set each folder on the MacBook to a different sorting method?
It's driving me crazy: I've watched videos, googled & nothing, no answers.
Say I have 3 Folders on the desktop. I want to ...
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Naming folder "Framework.Service" appends ".app" extension which can't be removed
I'm currently having a really weird problem. I've checked out a git repo which has a folder named Framework.Service. When I run ls in the terminal it shows the folder name as is. But when I look at it ...
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Finder: Clean up by kind AND modified date?
Is it possible? Whenever I create a folder, it pops up anywhere, and then doesn't get sorted at the beginning of the folder (in Icon view).
Basically; I would like Finder to show folders first, then ...
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How to open an external drive without cluttering it with .DS_Store files? [duplicate]
I want to open on Mac an external media I use for another OS, without cluttering all the disk with .DS_Store files.
I only need to copy a bunch of folders and files.
Would accessing the external drive ...
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Taking the first 7 characters of a folder name and appending it
I have a lot of folders named the same way with the year at the start and I would like to somehow move the year to the end of the folder name
For example, current folder name:
(1999) Robert Wyatt - ...
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How can I stop Mac Automator using previous specification for my actions?
How can I stop Automator using previous specification for my actions?
I’m going crazy with Automator.
I have three folders : Deployed, Draft and Live.
In both folders there is a Public folder:
I want ...
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Automate renaming a part of a filename from another folder for versioning purposes
I have psd files in a folder which i have to output multiple crops, the crops creation are automated to come extent but i need to make sure my versioning is the same.
Example Logic
Get contents of '...
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Folders disappearing from search result list after consulting them
We have a customer that is experiencing a strange behavior when he searches folders on his MacBook (Catalina 10.15.7, i7 2.2Ghz, 16GB Ram).
For example :
he searches for "2022-D00170" which ...
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Find out which process creates a file/directory [duplicate]
There's a file and a directory that gets created semi-randomly and I'm struggling to find out which process is creating it. After deleting the file, it will get recreated later (more details about ...
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In synched Safari on MacBook and iPhone a new folder in "Favourites" has a different position
I've recently updated my MacBook Pro (late 2016) to Monterey 12.3 and my iPhone 8 to iOS 15.4. Then from the Mac, on Safari, I've created a new bookmarked folder inside "Favourites". The ...
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To put my folder(or the alias of it) into the root directory, how to do with the asl.conf file?
I have a requirement to put files in the root directory. I learned from this website that I can modify /etc/syslog.conf to achieve this goal, but when I open it, I am prompted that the relevant ...
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Automator questions - Copying files to new location [duplicate]
So I have some questions about the Automator.
I'm doing a fairly simple task with it and that's why it boggles my mind that it doesn't work. Always brings me the same info
"The action "...
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When diskutil mount vs mount?
I know how to mount in Linux at /mnt through the mount command, the same command exists on macos too.
After to read the following tutorial:
Mount & Unmount Drives from the Command Line in Mac OS ...
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Is not possible create directories and files at /Volumes with permissions granted
In Linux Ubuntu for example within the /mnt directory I created two directories - for example: alpha and beta - it to be used to mount some remote directories later.
For the same machine exists two ...
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Sort 80,412 files into folders based on name begins with
Situation:
a folder with 80,412 files
all files named with CamelCase, some have a dash (-) separating the first word
files can be grouped by beginning with the same word or letters(i.e. "...
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How mount through a command a remote directory at /Volumes but within a specific path and directory? [duplicate]
In Mac - El Capitan - through:
Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server
Is possible do the connection with smb://hostname/documents
Therefore the documents remote directory is mounted on /Volumes
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How mount many directories with the same name over the LAN on /Volumes?
In Windows 10, through Windows Explorer is possible stablish a network connection for a remote directory and thanks to the Map network drive approach is possible keep that connection mapped with a ...
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Copying a folder from a Mac to an external hard drive using Terracopy: if you delete the source file does the destination file get deleted too?
When copying a folder from a Mac to a backup external hard drive using Terracopy? If you delete the source file or folder does the destination get deleted too? This happens using Carbon Copy Cloner ...
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Can't select files or folders in dialog box
Every time I want to save or open a file from any program (Chrome, Keynote, Numbers, Safari,...) on my 2021 MBP, when the dialog box opens I can't click on any of the folders or files, nor can I click ...
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Copy folder structure with specificed folders and its content only
I want to use terminal to copy a folder structure with specific folders inside and its content only.
Structure:
Parentsource folder
Child one (child can be any names)
Folder one (this folder ...
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