Comments on: Mac OS X – Show / Hide Hidden Files in Finder

By: Raul

Raul — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:07:32 +0000

Thanks,

After following your instruction I was able to locate two +100Gb files generated by iMovie that filled my HardDisk [OSX Trash] and made impossible to operate with my computer.

Now I have recovered more than 200Gb space and my system is working fine!!!

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Install Snow Leopard on a drive with an existing XP - Page 3 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:44:36 +0000

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By: MiaulementQ

MiaulementQ — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:38:07 +0000

This was the clearest, therefore the easiest instruction on how to get my system back to “normal”! I don’t even know why the .DS_Store files started showing up everywhere… but this really was so simple. Thanks a ton!

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Show/Hide Hidden Files in Mac OS X Finder « Eric Alexander's Blog — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:28:58 +0000

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By: dan

dan — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:16:34 +0000

Awesome! thanks.

Although it would have been much easier if there was a simple tick box in the finder preferences, like there is in windows explorer.

By: James

James — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:13:42 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I was trying to locate a hidden .cfg file for a particular application and I couldn’t use it anymore due to conflicting settings but that command line revealed the .cfg file so now I can manually change the settings, thanks!

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By: Jessica Sideways

Jessica Sideways — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:06:21 +0000

Thanks for the help, hun.

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When things work! - Wilson Chow » Show and Hide hidden files in OSX — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:08:19 +0000

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By: Gary7777s

Gary7777s — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:53:18 +0000

What OS versions?

By: Richard Monson-Haefe

Richard Monson-Haefe — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:10:09 +0000

Thanks! I can never remember this myself. Now it pops up at the top of a google search!

By: Oris

Oris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:19:22 +0000

Good freeware application for http://code.google.com/p/hide-unhide

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:18:36 +0000

Here’s how to make a shell file to really simplify this:
http://macmartine.com/blog/2009/11/shell-script-to-showhide-hidden-files-on-os-x.html

By: famous_nick

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By: Philippe

Philippe — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:02:49 +0000

Thanks a lot it’s really helpful

By: Tasha

Tasha — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:24:38 +0000

Uber-awesome :D MERCI BEAUCOUP!!

By: Forest

Forest — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:38:56 +0000

Thanks, just wat I needed to get some files off of a hard drive that was causing some issues.

By: GuiSim@gmail.com

GuiSim@gmail.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:17:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this ! :D

By: bobby

bobby — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 03:14:03 +0000

Thanks. Came in handy!
:o)

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:10:54 +0000

So i had to show my hidden files when trying to recover my lost firefox bookmarks when updating to 3.0 but when i go to un-hide them entering the second command FALSE into terminal and then killall Finder i still am stuck with the hazy 50% look on all my files, ive tried restarting and everything is there something i am doing wrong where i cant change my files back?