Trac does not see /opt for attaching files

Lenore Horner LenoreHorner at sbcglobal.net
Mon May 15 19:53:14 UTC 2017


> On May 15, 2017, at 13:56, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On May 15, 2017, at 12:03, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 16 May 2017, Joshua Root wrote:
>> 
>>> You can hit cmd-shift-. to show hidden files and folders in open/save 
>>> dialogs.
>> 
>> The question is of course why is /opt hidden in the first place?  This 
>> smacks of the M$ "you don't need to know this" attitude.
> 
> I thought we were hiding it, but it's not hidden on my systems and I can't find anywhere in the Makefile or postflight script where it's being hidden, so I must've imagined it.
> 
/opt (and other things like files beginning with . /Library) are hidden by the OS by default but it’s pretty easy to find instructions on how to turn the hiding off or make a script to toggle hiding.  My guess is Ryan turned the hiding off entirely on his system.  



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