Audacity Forum

I have been using audacity to capture old cassette tapes into a digital format. unfortunately, I made the mistake of starting a project and letting it run while I was away from my computer. when I returned many hours later, my hard drive had been eaten up completely by audacity's temp files (over 120gig). unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the hidden files to delete them. can someone post directions for the mac os for removing these files form my computer>?

thank you

<<<can someone post directions for the mac os for removing these files form my computer>?>>>

No. I don't think Mac-OS will go up there. But I more or less know how to do it in Terminal Command Line. You might consider selling the computer. That will be easier.

Let's all get into trouble.

Ever use a command line before? Always a first time. If this completely freaks you out--and it should, then you need to find a friend or relative that knows how to do it. If you run into an inconsistency anywhere in this note, just write back and say where you got stuck. At the end, drag your mouse over all the stuff in your terminal and paste it all into the next message back to us. That's how I got the odd-looking text below. Quit Terminal.

Audacity > Audacity Preferences > Directories > Temp Directory. That's where you "told" Audacity to put the temporary files. Mine says /tmp/audacity1.2-koz. Each slash mark is a folder name so that's the tmp folder with audacity1.2-koz inside it. Yours won't say "koz."

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Terminal gives you a way to run the computer without the Fuzzy-Warm® getting in the way. Open Terminal and it will look something like below. Every time it stops at the dollar sign, that's the prompt for you to type in whatever I put there and press Return. Again, yours won't say "koz" or francis. Francis is the name of my computer.


Last warning, you can get into very serious trouble with this, so last chance...

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Last login: Sun Dec 28 11:26:03 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
francis:~ koz$ cd /tmp
francis:/tmp koz$ ls -l
total 24
-rw------- 1 koz wheel 0 Dec 23 15:35 ClassicScanComplete
drwxr-xr-x 3 koz wheel 102 Dec 28 11:25 audacity1.2-koz
drwxr-xr-x 3 koz wheel 102 Dec 28 05:03 hsperfdata_koz
-rw------- 1 nobody wheel 12 Dec 28 07:54 objc_sharing_ppc_4294967294
-rw------- 1 koz wheel 468 Dec 28 11:23 objc_sharing_ppc_501
-rw------- 1 security wheel 24 Dec 28 07:54 objc_sharing_ppc_92
francis:/tmp koz$ cd audacity1.2-koz/
francis:/tmp/audacity1.2-koz koz$ ls -l
total 8
-rw------- 1 koz wheel 5 Dec 28 11:25 audacity-lock-koz
francis:/tmp/audacity1.2-koz koz$

kozikowski wrote:No. I don't think Mac-OS will go up there.

WHAT !!!

Really ???

I'm shocked that anyone would release an OS without a decent file manager.
Google: how about "Path Finder" ?

<<<I'm shocked that anyone would release an OS without a decent file manager. >>>

Then you'd be shocked at every Mac OS up through 9.2.2. OS-X was the first one with Terminal which would allow you to do these tricks. Even Windows has its Root Environment you can't get to. Ask Sony how well their Root Kit copy protection went.


It's possible that there is a way to force the GUI up there, but I never found it because it's easier for me to just open a Terminal. But I did try. Terminal works anywhere on the drive and all other mounted devices. I'm sure there's no way to get to the drive-device mount point other than Terminal. /Volumes just isn't available any other way (that I know of).

On this machine, /Volumes/jimmy is the base on which all the interface pictures are mounted. Further back than that the pretty pictures don't go.

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Cocoatech's $34 Path Finder 3.2 ( ; http://www.cocoatech.com ) may be just what you've been waiting for.
If you're an advanced user, Path Finder has features that you will appreciate, such as the ability to generate a number of different system reports, browse invisible files and packages...
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I'd still go with the brother-in-law who's a UNIX freak, sorry, enthusiast/proponent.

Koz

I had a problem with hidden files recently and I found this page that made things very simple and easy once set up. This runs right from in Finder and is quite useful.

http://theappleblog.com/2007/04/30/quic ... den-files/

There are some interesting discussions going on below the article about the code that could be useful as well.

Cheers.

Shift Apple G in the Finder allows you to type the name of the folder you want to navigate to, also found in the "Go" menu. From there you can enter /tmp or whatever.

<<<also found in the "Go" menu.>>>

I thought there might be a way to do it. I just never figured it out.

Koz

To view all files on your Mac, including all hidden files, just open the Terminal and enter the following two lines, one after another:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

When you're done, type in the same two lines, except change TRUE to FALSE.


You can of course just copy the two lines above (one at a time) and paste into the terminal if you don't want to retype.

Hope that helps.