SillyDog701

[incaramos]

Greetings all!
I'm doing an thorough spring cleaning of my os X 10.3.7 system. Two years of Shareware, freeware and "tinkering" has gotten a lot of random files all over the place... However, in my Terminal, I spy a "File Transfer Folder??" (?? == ^C^M if you tab auto-complete) which doesn't show up in the finder, which I have no rights to (which is NOT a problem) but also have NEVER seen before.

I have bitorrent. Which is my prime suspect. Norton Antivirus, which has been a pain in the butt to purge, is 2nd in line....

My question: does anyone else (who knows how to work the terminal) see this "File transfer Folder??" in their HardDrive directory? Or would anyone know what Application puts it there, or whether or not it's a folder the system uses?

(ps. I know all the mach and Desktop DB, DF should be left alone, I'm not gunna delete my comp into oblivion )

--thanks.

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[Antony]

However, in my Terminal, I spy a "File Transfer Folder??" (?? == ^C^M if you tab auto-complete) which doesn't show up in the finder, which I have no rights to (which is NOT a problem) but also have NEVER seen before.

I have bitorrent. Which is my prime suspect. Norton Antivirus, which has been a pain in the butt to purge, is 2nd in line....

Where is that [tt]File Transfer Folder??[/tt] file located?
under your home folder or somewhere else?
How big is it, and what are the files inside?

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[incaramos]

That' exactly it: It says I dont have sufficient permissions to access the file (i'm root). when I said the Hard drive, i MEANT the harddrive, like the the great -great-grandaddy of parent directories. Open the Hard Drive (where the system and Applications for X and 9, and you MAY see it)... or just open terminal, and hit cd .. until it doesn't let you 'backtrack' anymore... ls and see what you have, please.
.. I'll edit this when I go through my os 9 boot to see what is in there.

.. and it doesn't show in the normal finder (no icon, listing, etc...)... I dont think the native system files would have 'illegal' characters in them (such that they're converted to '?'... *sigh*)

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[Antony]

Where is [tt]File Transfer Folder??[/tt] folder located?

Can you try [tt]pwd[/tt]?

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[incaramos]

the root directory i think it's called? the only place where you can also see the Hard drive directory, Volumes, Trash, and a few mach files. Need to be in the Terminal to really see it: In Finder Mode, it's the default window that pops up when you hit command-N (where you can see all the active media and the hard disk, and network disks, if any.) but finder mode doesn't show everything.

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[Antony]

okay, I can't find that in the root directory of my hard drive. I guess you can delete it

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