Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: WF Pro (Mac OS) crashes/has stopped working
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title: Hidden folders on Mac
[quote]Luca Balestra wrote:
On a side note, how do you access the .wf_workspace folder on Mac?
[/quote]
You can see its location by looking at the path to one of your glossaries (create one if you haven't got any).
It's a hidden folder, and hidden folders are not visible by default in OS X. Here is one way to make them visible:
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Note that the folder name starts with a dot, and such folders are a special case in OS X (it's explained in the above link).
I'm not sure why the Wordfast Pro developers decided to make .wf_workspace hidden, and why they chose to put glossaries under that particular folder (making it super-hard to back them up, for instance). And I'm not sure why Apple decided to make it so hard to display hidden folders. Probably because (like Microsoft) they think end-users are too stupid for their own good.
Topic: WF Pro (Mac OS) crashes/has stopped working
Poster: Dominique Pivard
Post title: Hidden folders on Mac
[quote]Luca Balestra wrote:
On a side note, how do you access the .wf_workspace folder on Mac?
[/quote]
You can see its location by looking at the path to one of your glossaries (create one if you haven't got any).
It's a hidden folder, and hidden folders are not visible by default in OS X. Here is one way to make them visible:
[url removed]
Note that the folder name starts with a dot, and such folders are a special case in OS X (it's explained in the above link).
I'm not sure why the Wordfast Pro developers decided to make .wf_workspace hidden, and why they chose to put glossaries under that particular folder (making it super-hard to back them up, for instance). And I'm not sure why Apple decided to make it so hard to display hidden folders. Probably because (like Microsoft) they think end-users are too stupid for their own good.