Tips and Ideas
File Buddy is a toolbox, and like any toolbox, people do not always see the full potential of every tool. Here we present some uses for File Buddy that may or may not have occurred to you. If you find an interesting use for File Buddy you feel may benefit others, please feel free to share it with us. It may appear in the next revision of this document.
Invisible Items
Files and folders can be made invisible, typically to hide them from users. As the term implies, invisible items are not displayed in the Finder.
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Making items visible and invisible
Open something in the info window and check or clear the Invisible checkbox to change its visibility. Another option is to Control-click an item's icon in a file list window and choose the desired command from the contextual menu that opens. |
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Invisible Volumes
Making an invisible volume visible is trickier than most people realize, so there's a whole topic devoted to the process. |
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Copying invisible items
You can't use the Finder to copy invisible files because you can't drag them anywhere. You may be able to make an item visible, but if the file is on a CD, that's not an option. To copy an invisible file or folder to another location: |
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Open the File menu and choose Copy. |
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Select the item you wish to copy in the dialog that appears. |
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Select the destination in the next dialog that appears. |
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Finding
Where did I save that?
Have you ever saved a file, only to find out you didn't save it where you thought you did? Or did some program you're using not create a file where you thought it would? If so, you'll appreciate the search date options "in the past 5 minutes" and "in the past hour." They're there to make it easy to find those misplaced files.
Deleting
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Some people report success using the Delete command in the File menu to delete problem files that couldn't be deleted using the Trash. |
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Sometimes after a search you may see a file in the file list window that you no longer need, and in fact, you don't need anything in the folder that contains it. To move a parent folder of an item in the list to the trash: |
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Control-click the item's icon in the list to open a contextual menu. |
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Move the pointer down to the Move to Trash item to open a submenu containing the item and all of its parent folders. |
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Choose the parent folder to be deleted from the submenu. |
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The Erase File command erases files before deleting them to prevent anyone from using file recovery software at a later time to recover the data they contained. |
Related Topics
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