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macgeneral
MIS
Gerr,
I'm not certain I fully understand your question here.
Are you simply looking to display a file hiearchy on the Desktop?
I'll answer based on the way you've formulated the question ....
The appliction can live almost anywhere in your file system - though traditionally it would install in either
Macintosh HD | Applications
or simply in Macintosh HD
Therefore simply double-click the mounted Macintosh HD icon on your Desktop and locate the folder of the App... AppleWorks for example resides (in OS 9.x) in a folder called Applications (Mac OS 9)
Does this help or have I misinterpreted the query?
macgenerl
macgeneral@mac.com
I'm not certain I fully understand your question here.
Are you simply looking to display a file hiearchy on the Desktop?
I'll answer based on the way you've formulated the question ....
The appliction can live almost anywhere in your file system - though traditionally it would install in either
Macintosh HD | Applications
or simply in Macintosh HD
Therefore simply double-click the mounted Macintosh HD icon on your Desktop and locate the folder of the App... AppleWorks for example resides (in OS 9.x) in a folder called Applications (Mac OS 9)
Does this help or have I misinterpreted the query?
macgenerl
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I'm afraid I wasn't very clear.
I have an application installed on my laptop. When I display the file hiearchy for the Mac HD I can see that there is a folder that exists where the application resides. But it is sort of grayed out and when I click on the icon nothing happens. I beleive it is "invisible". What I would like to do is take a look at the DB files and see how I could retrieve some of the information that would serve me in Filemaker Pro. If I can't establish some sort of a link I'm stuck doing double entry. This application is proprietary.
Gerr
I have an application installed on my laptop. When I display the file hiearchy for the Mac HD I can see that there is a folder that exists where the application resides. But it is sort of grayed out and when I click on the icon nothing happens. I beleive it is "invisible". What I would like to do is take a look at the DB files and see how I could retrieve some of the information that would serve me in Filemaker Pro. If I can't establish some sort of a link I'm stuck doing double entry. This application is proprietary.
Gerr
Ok .. .first, this display your attempting, is this in the Finder, or in some application tool?
Also, is this Mac OS X, or Mac OS 8/9?
If you're trying to access content in an application's monolithic file, you're probably out of luck, unless you have access to that application's APIs.
Also, is this Mac OS X, or Mac OS 8/9?
If you're trying to access content in an application's monolithic file, you're probably out of luck, unless you have access to that application's APIs.
macgeneral
MIS
But if it's simply an "invisible" file as you first mention you CAN tinker with it's resource - DANGER WILL ROBINSON as this one could get very hairy and cause mor trouble than it's worth.
You'd need to download a copy of ResEdit and then e-mail me for more as I'm not in the habit of posting potentially dangerous tricks to public forums.
Macgeneral@mac.com
You'd need to download a copy of ResEdit and then e-mail me for more as I'm not in the habit of posting potentially dangerous tricks to public forums.
Macgeneral@mac.com
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