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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gatorparrots" data-source="post: 1470">You can show and hide invisible . files (dotfiles) in the Finder using the defaults command in the Terminal:Show all:defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles '1'Hide all:defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles '0' Then relaunch the Finder:kill -1 `ps auxc | grep Finder | awk '{print $2}'`If the invibility bit has been set by another method than prepending a . before the filename, you may be better off with an application that can hide/show these files/folders that have an 'invisible' flag set:(outdated link removed)or(outdated link removed)(Yes, there is an English version.)Making files invisible        It is also possible to selectively make files & directories invisible rather easily. If the file/directory to be made invisible is on the root level, the easiest solution is probably to add 'dirname' (where 'dirname' is the file/directory to be hidden) to the .hidden file that lists items on the root level of the boot volume (/) to keep hidden from the Finder. Then relaunch the Finder to affect the change. Launch Terminal.app and issue these commands exactly as they appear below:sudo -scp -p /.hidden /.hidden.defaultecho 'dirname' >> /.hiddenexitkill -1 `ps aucx | grep Finder | awk '{print $2}'` Alternately, if you have the Developer Tools installed, you can set the directory's invisbility bit:/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V /dirname If it is a non-root level directory to be made invisible, the command would be along these lines:/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V /Volumes/drivename/dirnameThis will set the visiblity bit of the named file/directory on the non-boot drive, thus making it invisible to the Finder.</blockquote>

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