Greetings James,

One of my recent full OSX drive backups failed verification and indicated that a repair of the archive was required. After executing the repair...a single Samba log file, residing under the OSX hidden folder "Private" was flagged as being corrupted in 3 of the 11 layers.

In the past, you have indicated that simply re-capturing the file/folder flagged as corrupted should basically return the archive to a healthy condition. The issue here is...how can one direct QRecall to overtly re-capture a file residing in an OSX hidden folder or file? In the normal archive Capture dialog...hidden folders/files are not enumerated....even if you change Finder preferences to reveal hidden files.

Thanks...

GKG

Gary K. Griffey wrote:In the past, you have indicated that simply re-capturing the file/folder flagged as corrupted should basically return the archive to a healthy condition.

Specifically, recapturing items ensures that you have a recent copy of all of your current files.

The issue here is...how can one direct QRecall to overtly re-capture a file residing in an OSX hidden folder or file?

You don't have to. During the next capture, QRecall automatically detects the situation where the most recently captured copy of a file (regardless of which layer that resides in) has become damaged and will seek it out and recapture it, whether it has changed or not. (Note that this logic has been improved recently, and I consider it foolproof only in the current beta.)

In the normal archive Capture dialog...hidden folders/files are not enumerated....even if you change Finder preferences to reveal hidden files.

If you want to do this by hand, here's the trick (and it works in most any OS X application). The OS X open file dialog has a quasi-hidden navigation feature that will let you open any hidden folder, you just have to know its BSD path. Choose the Capture command. In the open dialog press Shift+Command+G (same as the Finder's Go To Folder... command). A dialog sheet will appear where you can enter the BSD path to the folder you want to see. In your case, type in "/private", click Go, and then select the 'var' folder to capture. This navigation shortcut also responds to path completion (using the Tab key), for those used to using this feature in the Terminal.

Ok...thanks for the details on the Shift+Command+G within the capture dialog.

One other clarification...is there any way that hidden files/folders can be viewed in an archive? When you open an archive...these folders/files are obviously not visible.

Thanks,

GKG

Gary K. Griffey wrote:One other clarification...is there any way that hidden files/folders can be viewed in an archive? When you open an archive...these folders/files are obviously not visible.

Play with the menu commands View > Show Invisible Items and View > Show Package Contents.

Thanks...

GKG