Some of the links in my home folder: lrwxr-xr-x 1 jceipek staff 38 Desktop -> /Users/jceipek/Dropbox/jc_home/Desktop rw-r-r- 1 jceipek staff 475 Apr 18 01:03 1 root wheel 0 47 jceipek staff 1504 1263 jceipek staff 40416 Sep 25 21:25 1 root wheel 0 1 root wheel 0 1 root wheel 0 1 root wheel 0 1 root wheel 0 Reading rw-r-r- 1 jceipek staff 825 Apr 18 00:47 Desktop\ParaspaceIcon.mtl How can I access restore the original folders on the drive?Ĭontents of /Users/jceipek/Dropbox/jc_home/ (the files owned by root used to be directories): 17 jceipek staff 544 Apr 18 01:03 90 jceipek staff 2880 Aug 8 09:37 1 jceipek staff 26628 Sep 26 07:16 151 jceipek staff 4832 Aug 16 19:58 Application 1 root wheel 0 1 root wheel 0 Calibre 1 root wheel 0 Desktop The files are still safe in the cloud, but if I restored them elsewhere to this drive, I wouldn't have enough disk space left, so at the very least I would like to recover the hundreds of GB of space that the folders used to occupy. The actual files are still on the system somewhere (my 1TB SSD thinks it only has 55GB free space) and I'd like to restore them if possible. When I updated to High Sierra, some of the original folders and links were maintained (such as the one to my Downloads folder), but others weren't - Finder is treating the folders in Dropbox as broken aliases and bash treats them as files owned by root. folders are stored directly in my Dropbox folder (because Dropbox doesn't like symbolic links) and I replaced the original folders in my home directory with hard links. In order to back up my computer with Dropbox, my Desktop, Documents, Development, etc.
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