Hidden folders on NTFS drives?
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    redrumloa
    Posts: 1424 from 2003/4/13
    To make a long story short, I hooked up a PC drive to my G5 to copy some data in the Downloads folder over. To get to it I would need to see the "Users" folder which is apparently hidden. Is there a way to display this? I can see everything except hidden folders.

    My PC died and I am waiting on a replacement MB. I do have a laptop I can use, but I'd rather eliminate the middle man and just use my G5/MorphOS.

    TIA
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  • MorphOS Developer
    jacadcaps
    Posts: 3108 from 2003/3/5
    From: Canada
    Did you try to enter the path manually in Ambient? Press '/' in a lister to do this...
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    KennyR
    Posts: 878 from 2003/3/4
    From: #AmigaZeux, Gu...
    Yep, just put the path in manually, or use the shell and put the path in manually there. The directory is accessible, it's just that its location is not reported by the filesystem.

    Odd though that MOS NTFS respects the Windows hidden bit by default, when there is so little support for it on MorphOS and Amiga (as red has found out from Ambient's lack of a "Show Hidden Files" option). May I suggest that on future versions of NTFS this behaviour is removed?

    [ Edited by KennyR 19.08.2018 - 15:28 ]
  • »19.08.18 - 14:27
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