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<blockquote data-quote="MacGrunt" data-source="post: 1334880" data-attributes="member: 210105"><p><strong>G'day</strong></p><p></p><p>All those greyed out files (and .ds-store files) are supposed to be 'invisible' — they are there on every mac — just not visible to the user — UNLESS the shell script "AppleShowAllFiles" is run. This is what the previous user must have done.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the instruction is basically this : Open the Script Editor application (found in Applications > Applescript) and copy and paste this code into the main Script Editor window :</p><p>[CODE]tell application "Finder" to quit</p><p>if (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles") is "1" then</p><p>do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0"</p><p>else</p><p>do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1"</p><p>end if</p><p>delay 2</p><p>tell application "Finder" to run[/CODE]</p><p>Then click the "Run" button</p><p></p><p>The script simply toggles the visibility of those 'invisible' files (If they are invisible, it makes them visible. If they are visible, it makes them invisible again)</p><p></p><p>As the script implies in the first line — it relaunches the Finder as part of the process</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps a little</p><p></p><p><strong>m.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacGrunt, post: 1334880, member: 210105"] [B]G'day[/B] All those greyed out files (and .ds-store files) are supposed to be 'invisible' — they are there on every mac — just not visible to the user — UNLESS the shell script "AppleShowAllFiles" is run. This is what the previous user must have done. Anyway, the instruction is basically this : Open the Script Editor application (found in Applications > Applescript) and copy and paste this code into the main Script Editor window : [CODE]tell application "Finder" to quit if (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles") is "1" then do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 0" else do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1" end if delay 2 tell application "Finder" to run[/CODE] Then click the "Run" button The script simply toggles the visibility of those 'invisible' files (If they are invisible, it makes them visible. If they are visible, it makes them invisible again) As the script implies in the first line — it relaunches the Finder as part of the process Hope that helps a little [B]m.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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