How to access .vol

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Created Jul ’15

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Just as the title says, trying to access directories such as .trashes, .vol, and more. They either return NULL or " ". I assume I require elevated privlilages, but when aquired, I still get the same thing.

Does anyone know how to programmicly access these files?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’15

What context are you trying to do this from?

/.vol

is weird but

/.Trashes

is simply a directory with restricted permissions. If you elevate your privileges you can access it the same way as you access any other volume.

$ ls -lha /.Trashes 
ls: .Trashes: Permission denied
$ sudo ls -lha /.Trashes
total 0
d-wx-wx-wt@  2 root  wheel    68B  1 Dec  2014 .
drwxr-xr-x  36 root  wheel   1.3K  5 Jun 23:09 ..

However, in 99% of cases you should avoid monkeying with these special directories because their presence and semantics are not considered API. So, what are you really trying to do here?

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