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Posted by: l008com on 2026-09-13 17:09:39
This is a strange one. I have a powermac 7300 with a single hard drive, partitioned into many slices. It has fully bootable volumes for 7.5.5, 7.6, 8.1, 8.6, 9.1, 10.2. Ignoring 10.2, when I boot into most of the other volumes, I see files on my desktop.
But if I remember correctly, what you're seeing on the desktop is just a conglomeration of all of the desktop folders on every disk? So how can I determine which disk (in this case I mean volume) the files are actually living on? Get Info just shows them as being "on the desktop" Weird old Mac problems! |
Posted by: LaPorta on 2026-09-13 17:14:22
Crude method I can think of: eject one partition at a time. Whichever ones disappear, they were on that drive. |
Posted by: l008com on 2026-09-13 17:24:30
Because I needed to boot 10.2 anyway for a second, I just looked at each drive's Desktop Folder from OS X and I found the files that way. But it seems a little crazy that there was no native way to get that info. |
Posted by: joevt on 2026-09-13 18:38:37
In Mac OS 9.1, the Get Info window shows which hard disk the file is on.
If you drag the files to an MPW worksheet, it should show the path to the file which is in a Desktop Folder? |
Posted by: l008com on 2026-09-13 23:34:24
MPW? |
Posted by: chelseayr on 2026-09-14 05:55:41
short for 'macintosh programmers workshop' |
Posted by: joevt on 2026-09-14 17:02:14
You can find MPW 3.5 Golden Master on Macintosh Garden.
In an MPW worksheet, you can execute MPW commands which are like Unix commands. You can drag files to the worksheet to get the path to the file, similar to Terminal.app in modern macOS. You can view most commands in the MPW.Help file. Instead of is, you would use the files command to list all the files in a folder. It's similar to the Unix files command.
BBEdit.app for modern MacOS has a similar worksheet concept but the commands are Unix - the same as those that you enter in Terminal.app.
In modern macOS, you can execute MPW commands using https://github.com/ksherlock/mpw
In modern macOS, you can use the open command to open a folder in the Finder. In MPW, you can use open -s to select a file or folder in the Finder.
View attachment Drag files from desktop to MPW worksheet.mov |
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