[ale] debugging a Mac snafu

[Passauer, Billy]

Hi Sean,

With regard to trying to burn a DVD of the Library folder -- are you trying to burn /Library or ~/Library ?  If the latter, temporary/cache files are getting created/deleted from this directory.  Lots of programs use this directory to store/update preferences.  Maybe do as previously suggested and create an iso first and then burn the iso.  Or make a duplicate of the directory, and burn the duplicate?

You should be able to read the system logs via the Console application, which is located in /Applications/Utilities

As far as getting the "GUI file manager" (Finder?) to display the contents of /var - if you open the "Go" menu and choose "Go to Folder...", you should then be able to enter /var

 ... Billy ...

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Drifter
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:23 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] debugging a Mac snafu

I still haven't solved the problem of why I cannot burn the Library directory to a DVD.  It complains of an (unknown) file not found.

BUT, I have discovered a way to read the syslogs without too much trouble
-- and without dealing with VI just to read a system file.

on a Mac terminal:

syslog -d /private/var/log/asl

Now if someone could tell me how to get the GUI file manager to display the contents of  /var, I would be grateful.

Sean

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