No I did cd ~/solona and tabbed and it asked to display all 19000 items. I sayd yes to see what would happen. wowza is alll I can say. lol. so what did I do wrong besides saying yes? and going crazy? lol. On Mar 25, 2010, at 3:17 AM, James & Nash wrote:
> Hi Chris & Sarah, > > I think I read that Sarah placed a period before Solona, which (for Sarah's > benefit), will show a number of system files which are generally hidden. But > the figure of 14000 is very high > > TC > James, Lyn, Nash & Twinny > On 25 Mar 2010, at 06:05, Chris Blouch wrote: > >> 14000 files? If you are in your home directory there should only be a >> handful such as Movies, Music, Downloads etc. Once in your solona folder >> there could be lots of files and folders, but unless it's really poorly >> organized it shouldn't be that many. >> >> CB >> >> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> Oh when I tried that it asked if I wanted to desplay all 14000 or so items. >>> lol. but I am not familar with linux at all btw. >>> On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:40 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> It's the same as pretty much any unix shell. So when you first fire up >>>> terminal you are already in your home directory. Not sure where you put >>>> this solona folder but it it's in your home directory you can just do >>>> >>>> cd solona >>>> >>>> with no slashes. If it's on your desktop you'll first want to cd to that. >>>> Note that unix is case sensitive so you'll want to cd Desktop with a >>>> capital D. Also you can take advantage of some nice autocomplete stuff >>>> with the tab key. So you could just type cd De then tab and it will fill >>>> in Desktop, assuming you don't have multiple files with that name. >>>> >>>> CB >>>> >>>> Sarah Alawami wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'm trying to change to a directory in my home folder. I've tried cd >>>>> /solona cd ./solona and what ever I could think of. I can't get this to >>>>> work. I'm trying to install the solona script but working width the >>>>> command line in mac is just a bit different then n windows. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> S >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >>>> . >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en >>>> . >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
