Spotlight-V100ĭrwxrwxrwt 5 mac staff 170 Sep 14 16:36. ĭrwxrwxrwt 8 root admin 272 Dec 24 13:55. # a is all to show hidden files & foldersĭrwxr-xr-x 41 mac staff 1496 Dec 22 17:11. The owner, group, or other has read, write, or execute permissions. To gain access to a file, you can be the owner, in the group, or not the owner and not in the group hence you end up as other. What type of entry is this? d = directory, - = file, etc.Įvery Unix resource: files, folders, etc has an owner, group, otherĪ Unix resource has one group.

|| | all other users not in first two types rw-r-r- 1 mac staff 64560 A-picture-of-Youpi-key.pngĭrwxr-xr-x 83 mac staff 2822 Nov 7 14:52 Applescript files/ĭrwxrwxrwx 12 mac staff 408 Christmas Cards/ĭrwxr-xr-x 9 mac staff 306 Dec 21 17:39 Christmas Cards 2009/ For directories, the slash is pasted to the end of the name. # F is type of file where / is directory. A directory is the Unix name for a folder. # Let's say your flash drive is named Spotless #What is my short user name? Type the whoami command. Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal Lets assume that your account has a short user name of mac. Here is an overview of the terminal commands. You can delete of things from Darwin but you must be very careful. On a PC keyboard, it will be the windows key, I think. It is between the alt/option key and the space bar. The command key has a little apple symbol on the lower left. This page will tell you how to get into single user mode.īasically, you hold down the command + s key then powering on your machine. Some hints about terminal and single user mode. You would get the same thing by booting up in single user mode. Look into Utilities or applications pull down. The key to this is to NOT install Ubuntu, because that would overwrite your Mac installation! Turn your Mac back on normally, and you'll see the file is gone. When you're done, just turn off your Mac using the power button. Now just find your files you want to delete, and delete them. Under Devices, click Mac HDD (or whatever yours is called). Just hit enter, and leave it for quite some time, so it can load.Īfter it has loaded, look at the left taskbar/dock. Let that go for a minute and a black screen will come up with some white text. Wait for it to load, and pick the disk with the penguin on it. Now hold down the left option/alt key a and turn your Mac back on. Select your DVD and click Burn at the top of the window. You will need to burn the Ubuntu file to the DVD. The next thing you'll need to do is insert your blank DVD into your Mac. First you'll need to download the PPC version of Ubuntu 12.04 here : /releases/12.04/release/

You'll need a blank DVD and about one gigabyte of space. Hi! There is a solution for your problem! You are going to have to boot into a live Linux environment.

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