This has been frustrating me all day. In Mac’s Automator program, has anyone figured out a way to ACCESS hidden files through the Automator interface? I’ve got a bug in my system that creates an endless number of files and eventually fills up my hard drive.
I’ve spoken with Apple about it and they pretty much just said, ‘gee whiz’. So it would be great to be able to schedule an automator task that would go to the folder they’re in and nuke them. The issue is that hidden files, even when I’ve made them visible through the terminal, aren’t visible in the automator. Any suggestions are welcome.
It was quite a while ago, about 6 or 7 years, that I purchased my first Mac computer, an 800 megahertz PowerPC iBook G4 with 256 megs of ram. I was thrilled to be a member of what at the time was the newly (re)minted Mac elite. I loaded up all the music I could into iTunes and even tried playing video over the free dial up that was offered to all students of my school- hey, I was a student and broadband was relatively expensive back then. Needless to say, video still wasn’t quite up to snuff, especially over that sort of connection.
So why am I reminiscing like an old sailor long retired from his mistress, the sea? Because Apple just released their annual list of “vintage” and “obsolete” machines. Vintage machines are those between 5 and 7 years old and will not receive service or hardware updates from Apple any longer unless you live in the state of California. Obsolete machines receive no updates anywhere.
The list please? (via cultofmac.com)
Among products on the “vintage” list are:
iMac (Early 2001)
iMac (17-inch Flat Panel)
iMac (Flat Panel)
iMac (Flat Panel 2003)
iMac (Summer 2001)
eMac
Macintosh Server G4 (Digital Audio)
Macintosh Server G4 (QuickSilver)
Macintosh Server G4 (Quicksilver 2002)
Macintosh Server G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors)
PowerBook (FireWire)
PowerBook G4
PowerBook G4 (12-inch)
PowerBook G4 (17-inch)
Obsolete gear includes:
Macintosh Server G4 (AGP Graphics)
Macintosh Server G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics)
PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet)
PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics)
PowerMac G4 Cube
PowerBook (Firewire), and even the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.
Naturally, this won’t mean much to those truly devoted to keeping their machines running. As a matter of fact, I’m writing on that very same iBook from all those years ago as I write this blog in bed, and mine has already been on the vintage list for a year!
I’m going to start this off like a bad Seinfeld joke, very apropos because of the commercials he recently did with Bill Gates for Microsoft.
What’s the deal with Windows 7? Just because you call it 7 doesn’t mean you have to have seven different varieties!
Well, they’re not quite there yet, but after announcing yesterday that there will be six (yes six), they have plenty of time to add one more before launch some time later this year. Seriously, what are they thinking? They’ve actually received good press for the beta version they released earlier this year- why crap it up with an armload of varieties at different prices? I’m also with Leo Laporte on this one, release it quickly and for $99.
Although I primarily use macs, I’m not a windows hater. It would be nice to see Microsoft clean up its image a bit considering the drumming they’ve taken in the last couple of years.
Crunchgear has a nice wrap-up of all the different flavors.
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